Although he then referred to balancing all that with a "democratic" process that held him "accountable," it may be that the central problem for Obama, when it comes to questions of secrecy, is not realizing that it is sometimes the press that has the backs, as he likes to put it, of our soldiers, especially when they are sent places they shouldn't be, for reasons that make no sense.
El-Masri was kept from pursuing the case in court because of the question of secrecy, about what would be revealed.
She would also address the question of secrecy in lethal injection drugs, specifically Missouri's imposition of new rules that keep the source of its chemicals hidden.
The Question of Secrecy While several officials in both the Clinton and Bush administrations called this and other research long overdue, they expressed concern about the lack of a central system for vetting such proposals.
Oof!" How odd that our shiniest celebrity, the man whose image once flashed most easily into our heads when we thought of the words "movie star," a man who, throughout his career, has grappled with all sorts of questions of privacy and secrecy and image control and damage control, has somehow emerged at this late date as the movie world's most unlikely symbol of old-fashioned authenticity.
Page A11 National DETAINEE'S APPEAL POSES A Challenge to Torture Policies An appeal to be heard Monday in San Francisco could provide an early look at whether President Obama will fully break with the previous administration on questions of government secrecy concerning the transfer of detainees to countries where they may face torture.
A case to be heard in San Francisco on Monday could provide an early look at whether President Obama will fully break with the previous administration on questions of government secrecy concerning the transfer of terrorism suspects to countries where they may face torture.
First, already at that time, there were attempts at envisaging simultaneously the questions of vote secrecy in the case of electors and in the case of representatives.[37] And the interesting fact is that we do not have today a clear theory telling us why we should have secret ballots for electors and open votes in plenary parliamentary sessions.
The country simply cannot go on like this over the question of official secrecy.
Instead of considering deeply the question of government secrecy and its corroding influence on the public's right to know, he argues, inspectors general have decided to count emails and memos.
"How does this affect scientific and medical research?" "Does gene patenting encourage innovative research?" "Does it influence the 'objectivity' of science, which [it is claimed] is free from commercial interest?" "Does it foster collaboration or thwart it by means of secrecy?" These questions are crucial ones.
