{"id":3087,"date":"2009-06-11T14:11:28","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T19:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=3087"},"modified":"2009-06-11T13:12:01","modified_gmt":"2009-06-11T18:12:01","slug":"the-more-extreme-the-governments-abuses-are-the-more-compelling-is-the-need-for-suppression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=3087","title":{"rendered":"The more extreme the Government&#8217;s abuses are, the more compelling is the need for suppression"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/opinion\/greenwald\/2009\/06\/09\/transparency\/index.html\">Glenn Greenwald<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A\u00a0<strong>much more critical issue<\/strong> here is whether the President should have the power to conceal evidence about the\u00a0Government&#8217;s actions on the ground that what the Government did was so bad, so wrong, so inflammatory, so lawless, that to allow disclosure and transparency would reflect poorly on our country, thereby increase anti-American sentiment, and thus jeopardize The Troops.\u00a0\u00a0Once you accept\u00a0<strong>that<\/strong> rationale &#8211;\u00a0<em><strong>the more extreme the Government&#8217;s abuses are, the more compelling is the need for suppression<\/strong><\/em> &#8211; then open government, one of the central planks of the\u00a0Obama campaign and the linchpin of a healthy democracy, becomes an illusion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glenn Greenwald: A\u00a0much more critical issue here is whether the President should have the power to conceal evidence about the\u00a0Government&#8217;s actions on the ground that what the Government did was so bad, so wrong, so inflammatory, so lawless, that to allow disclosure and transparency would reflect poorly on our country, thereby increase anti-American sentiment, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[458],"tags":[77],"class_list":["post-3087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-opinionsphere","tag-glenn-greenwald"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-NN","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3087"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3094,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3087\/revisions\/3094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}