While paying lip service to the idea of public (or at least "relevant stakeholder") consultation, the architects of TTIP nonetheless intend to keep secret all the documentation of how the eventual agreement is reached – for 30 years.
Remarkably, little of Bush's dealings with Germany has received public scrutiny, partly because of the secret status of the documentation involving him.
Several years ago, in pursuit of long buried facts, my wife and I went to Washington and looked at sections of 10,000 pages of once secret or classified F.B.I. documentation on the Weathermen and at papers of the New York Police Department dealing with the investigation.
http://t.co/qn4E2Xj9Wo October 3, 2013 10.09am BST Thursday 3 October 2013: Government demanded Snowden's secure login The documentation of a secret government order has been unsealed by a federal judge in Virginia, showing that authorities demanded the SSL key of Edwards Snowden's secure email provider Lavabit.
Although the broad outline of the judge's ruling had been known since he issued it in February 2012 and reaffirmed it in August, his reasoning and supporting documentation had remained secret because the Justice Department, which controls immigration courts, had declined to release the information.
Under Habré's direction, the regime's secret police — the Direction of Documentation and Security — targeted civilians and dignitaries alike.
It's the first time visual documentation of the top-secret affair has been released, and we're a little drunk in love with the meaningful morsel.
The book proves, with much documentation, that Mussolini pursued a secret anti-Semitic policy in Italy before 1934.
Habré is accused of having direct knowledge of the activities of the notorious secret police, the DDS (Direction de la Documentation et de la Sécurité) and ordering the targeting of ethnic groups such as the Hadjerai and Zaghawa.
We are asking about the reaction of Polish diplomats to various disclosures made by Edward Snowden, measures taken to protect civil rights and the confidentiality of governmental communication, secret agreements between security agencies and the documentation of Snowden's asylum proceedings.
