Au contraire, excessive secrecy is the death of popular government. If we don't know what the government's doing, we can't vote sensibly.
Sensibly?
Sensibly?
We are always torn between the lesser of two evils. It doesn't matter if it's a congressrat, governor or whatever. When we vote the Party line (which I have done for eons) we end up with a pontificating "moderate" imbecile. The Congress is full of those types.
We may be sensible, but those for whom we're voting are, by and large, not so.
Turning over Top Secret documents to some leftist "Friends of Patrick Leahy" can only be termed "playing into the hands of our enemies!"
I was speaking in the context of the WOT and the lesser of 2 evils. To release secret information inappropriately could be devastating and cost a huge number of lives. To classify something needlessly is excessive secrecy as you say but would hardly present the same danger.