President Joe Biden is unlikely to fix America's classified document mess. He's failed before, writes Matthew Connelly
But even then, and even now, no White House official will go on the record about what is actually being proposed, or even who is supposedly waging this war on secrecy. One might think that Congress would insist that the executive branch be more open about its efforts to be more accountable to the American people.
Here again, no one knows this better than Biden. The same year he established his bona fides as a keeper of America’s secrets, Biden joined with good government groups in insisting on providing input when Carter actually shared a draft of his new executive order on national security information— something the Biden administration shows no interest in doing—when Carter too announced a war on secrecy.
For Carter’s advisors, such threats seemed credible. As one asked, “Does [the] President wish to abandon ‘openness’ program to Congressional action?” They finally agreed to put the balancing test in
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