Cost of Secrecy Continues to Increase

xerid writes "The Associated Press is running an article about the increasing costs of government secrecy. The information stems from a report (PDF Warning) posted at OpenTheGovernment.org. From the article: 'The government is withholding more information than ever from the public and expanding ways of shrouding data. Last year, federal agencies spent a record $148 creating and storing new secrets for each $1 spent declassifying old secrets, a coalition of watchdog groups reported Saturday. That's a $28 jump from 2003 when $120 was spent to keep secrets for every $1 spent revealing them.'"

Comments

Re:More than that, I think

[Halfbaked Plan]

Whoo. You found a way to invoke Haliburton. Here's your cookie!

I'm a former intelligence officer, and I never EVER saw you at the water cooler.

Could it be that one, or both of us, are lying through our teeth??

One of the secrets they have been trying to keep

[3seas]

....from the public is the real reason why 9/11 happened.

What is amazing is that there is plenty enough information publicly available that anyone with half a brain that comes across this information and most important, the ability to think for themselves.... Well it'll be obvious and undeniable.

And yes, the government has spent more to cover it up than what it'd cost to simply present the already public information in relative context via the major media.

For example, how much did it cost the Government to create the anthrax letter threat against the News Media while probably paying someone a good deal to do it in such a manner to assure disconnection from the government.... and of course it was determined to have come from a US based US military base....as there had to be just the right amount of connection to properly threaten the media..

So in regard to a trillion dollars... that's clearly enough money for anyone to notice that money like that doesn't just appear from nowhere and then vanish back into nowhere...

The players... Minimum investment... 1 billion... enron, worldcome, etc... were the obvious losers. The winners... easy come easy go.... the dot com boom and bust was on the winners side.... needing a place to invest the winfall....

World Trade Center (not the first attempt to bring it down!!!) ... the Pentagon and .... The white Horse... uh house...

Politically controlled military to back a wrongful world stock market manipulation.

Don't believe me?

Do a google Search on "Trillion dollar bet" and read the transcript.

Screw others and you will fear and suffer revenge...and in the process perhaps get overly aggressive in your paranoia ....just where are the WMD iraq was supposed to have? What about the weapons of mass destruction of wrongful world economic manipulation?

China wasn't effected because they don't play the stock market....

There is more!!!

What the World Wants is not obscene war spendings...but real solutions to real world problems And we do have the knowledge, manpower and natural resources to do it.

So why is it not happening?

Ben Franklin "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

And FDR used it in his "four freedoms" speech..

Of course it cost more to keep up with your lies, because telling the truth is just plain without the need for spending extra energy in keeping the lies in order..

Re:Increased cost

[Rolo Tomasi]

Sounds fishy. It's probably just a trick to keep you from claiming your granfather's rightfully deserved Nazi treasures.