Sentence examples for draconian secrecy from inspiring English sources
The Australian government moved on Tuesday to address what they believe are "factually incorrect and highly misleading" statements about the draconian secrecy provisions of the new Border Force Act.
There was no crystal ball to see that a future ANC government would feel the need to pass its own draconian secrecy law (The shame of South Africa, 24 November).
The US has the First Amendment; we have draconian secrecy and libel laws and a succession of politicians covering up both cock-ups and conspiracies by gesturing conveniently at things such as "national security".
"There is a concern that this could galvanise the president into signing the very draconian secrecy bill that would be used to crack down on leaks in the SSA and would have a chilling effect on MPs and the media," Maynier said.
"We knew right after September 11th, we saw the Bush administration come in with these draconian secrecy policies that the oil and gas industry and other corporate chiefs were very happy to embrace because it totally attacked the public's right to know about chemical hazards and threats to our public water supply.
As a result of all this, we face a strangely contradictory future in which ever more draconian regimes of secrecy will confront the urge for ever greater transparency.
Commander Kuebler responded that he "abides by military commission secrecy rules, as draconian as they are".
The question is: Will there be a heightened call -- however futile -- for increased secrecy and the ever more draconian punishment of leakers, as has been the case in the war on terror?
Known as the "secrecy bill", it has been described as a draconian measure that will allow the governing African National Congress (ANC) to cover up corruption and send whistleblowers and journalists to jail for up to 25 years.
But the extreme secrecy that persists in the Hermit Kingdom rarely allows for a detailed accounting of exactly how often the draconian government kills its own people.
