Is the Bush administration being too secretive for America's best interests?

Question

First it was Cheney's secret energy notes, and now it's CIA tapes that have been destroyed. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071215/ap_on_go_pr_wh/cia_videotapes
I can remember when it was this country's policy to treat our war prisoner's as we would want the enemy to treat theirs. Torturing mostly only leads up to hearing a phony story that's of no use.

A few people think if the other side acts cruel ,that we should throw are morales away and act cruel also. Let's continue to be Americans, regardless of how the psychopaths act. There's almost never a good reason for our government to hide information from it's citizens. I said Almost not just at the political whim of certain politicians. Things like plans for a coming war champaign during war time should be kept secret until after executed. Cheney's Energy notes should be made public.

Answer 1

Yes, I think there is something wrong here. It's like when a child cheats on a test and then he gets caught. Because nothing happens to him, he continues to do it.

Answer 2

Yeah, we want a transformation, yet no longer the form of replace the liberals envision. the folk would desire to alter to re-ignite their devotion to fact, which ability to reject the prejudice and lack of wisdom of the media. in fact that maximum journalists don't have a clue what they are finding at many of the time while the matters are regulation, government, or something militia, they only report what they think of in accordance with their very own prejudices. human beings would desire to envision the information extra. we would desire to return to the form, and end dropping time and money on the UN. If the U. S. ought to take action someplace, each and every of the UN does is postpone the inevitable, making the suitable action extra no longer worry-free and extreme priced. i'm no longer attentive to a single challenge they have ever even ameliorated, no longer to point solved.

Answer 3

Elected representatives work for their interests using public principal.

Bush is doing nothing unusual . he has his own vision and road map
Some times secrecy is better then transparency. if u listen to every one nothing can be done by doubting thomases .
in 700 crusuaders did more torture than americans are doing today.
If u do not get the information . the dark age will revisit the world again , then it will be too late . Then u will say had Bush not shown mercy we would not have been praying mercy.

Answer 4

Yes, but that's the way it's been for decades now. The american public knows only what the government thinks they should know, why all the secrecy? It's very tough to trust the government these days when they are running around like some secret society.

Answer 5

According to Keith Olbermann, who was on Bill Moyers Journal, the Bush Administration has had FIFTY things that could have the suffix "-Gate" (as in "like Watergate scandal") during its term in office... FIFTY SCANDALS... this is unprecedented incompetence, arrogance, stupidity, or whatever it is, but I hope something like this will NEVER happen again. Remember how Bush was saying there won't be any "moral scandals" in the White House if he was President? Yeah... right... and Bill Clinton did not have sexual relations with that woman.

Answer 6

In questions of war, we don't need to know. As for prisoner' of war, we treat them better than they treat us. I don't remember seeing any of their heads roll. The media and people not involved in saving my butt, needs to keep out of how it's done. Since the media's involvement in every thing thats goes on, we have had a pretty hard time of getting stuff done. I mean, if you are the enemy, wait for the news and you will get all the information you need. It would appear that we have lost our minds. Not a good way to fight a war. What! But thats just me!!

Answer 7

Definitley. You need your ELECTED leaders to be transparent and work in the interests of the American people.They tend towork in the interest of themselves and thier cronies only. He hides behind religion to get public sympathy but is probably an atheist, and acts dumb while using his intelligence to screw everyone over. in my opinion. If they were not so secretive I think the world would be shocked at what was really going on.

Answer 8

Yes national security is an excuse not a reason for secretism.

RRRR

Answer 9

The entire Bush administration is not in America's best interest.

Answer 10

So wait, are you complaining about torture (which most sick terrorist criminals deserve) or are you surprised that our government ACTUALLY keeps information away from the general public?