All but a handful of secrets necessitated by war, diplomacy and espionage must eventually be disclosed in a democracy, for secrecy over time breeds insularity and a lack of accountability.
The workings of internal affairs divisions are cloaked in excessive secrecy: information about their operations is only disclosed in incomplete and occasional fashion through investigative newspaper articles, books, and special commission studies on police departments, usually following major scandals.
Judge Cogan had been appointed to oversee secrecy orders in the case after Mr. Oberlander disclosed, in a lawsuit filed in Manhattan in 2010, John Doe's actual name and his role as a cooperating witness.
Clarke defended his call for extending secrecy powers for civil cases – which would allow the government to disclose its hand and so perhaps avoid settlements – saying: "Such cases involve information which, under current rules, cannot be disclosed in a courtroom.
The names of a number of individuals who died in the months after being nominated are not likely to be disclosed because of the secrecy of the Nobel selection process.
Bonus payouts are traditionally shrouded in secrecy; companies are required to disclose their top executives' pay, but they do not disclose the size of their total bonus pools in their public filings or internally.
Former senator Pete Domenici of New Mexico, a Republican, disclosed Wednesday that he has a son born in secrecy over 30 years ago.
It contains a great deal of information about company owners, proxies and intermediaries in secrecy jurisdictions, but it doesn't disclose bank accounts, email exchanges and financial transactions contained in the documents.
The decision represents a major setback for Arab Bank, which has said it is unwilling to release the documents in question because they cannot be disclosed without violating foreign bank secrecy laws — an argument that the court previously rejected.
The process is shrouded in secrecy with many developers regularly refusing to disclose to the public the assessments on which their figures are based.
The bureau's research has found that: The process is shrouded in secrecy with many developers regularly refusing to disclose to the public the assessments on which their figures are based.
