But his serious message is that the pattern of excessive secrecy set by Nixon and Mr Kissinger, and followed by successive administrations, laid the tracks for the roller-coaster ride that has come to typify Sino-American relations.
The post-9/11 combination of ballooning budgets, expanding technological abilities and near-total secrecy set up the intelligence agencies for an eventual collision with public opinion, in a repeat of a scandal-reform cycle from almost four decades ago.
The "wall of secrecy" set up by the Act meant that atomic energy research and development had to be conducted under the supervision of the Atomic Energy Commission.
By hiding their habit from the world, sufferers hurt their families; more to the point, secrecy sets back their chances of seeking treatment and recovering.So it is with drugs policy.
In this case, the agencies were on the same page, and press accounts suggest that the usual concerns about interagency turf and excessive preoccupation with secrecy were set aside.
On the morning of the five-day Olympic competition, Games officials will arrive, shrouded in secrecy, and set them out, creating the unique formation of swirls, rapids and eddies that will form the medals' course, then decide where to hang the gates, further diminishing home advantage.
The investigation, which is peeling back layers of Swiss banking secrecy, has set the bank on a collision course with prosecutors and regulators, who contend that it sold tax-evasion services that are legal in Switzerland but not in the United States.
An interesting point about the secrecy capacity region is that if we drop the secrecy constraints by setting, we are unable to recover the capacity region of the corresponding broadcast channel that was found in [26].
The new disclosures about the agency's deep-set culture of shameful secrecy do not inspire confidence.
