It’s not as if she completely barred EVERYONE from the meetings. You don’t think if there was something very seriously wrong that went on in the meeting the cameramen, and photogs wouldn’t have run to their editors and spilled the beans?
In general, I do agree with you. There should be open meetings - they are after all answerable to US. However, you also have to realize that the ones in this country that are currently “responsible” for disseminating the information gleaned from those meetings wouldn’t be giving us the TRUTH about those meetings anyway, right? ESPECIALLY not if there were a Dem President (they would protect him), and especially not if it were a Rep President (whom they would vilify as they have done with Bush).
So you see, we are at a real impasse here. Unless, and until, the journalistic profession decides to go back to being ethical, and prizing unbiased news. Or, the MSM “in charge” currently is replaced by REAL journalists, or even with citizen journalists.
Wrong.
All meetings involving government officials can be made public, outside of national security issues, without the commercial media, or any MSM dialog being involved.
Rip the doors off their government offices and lets monitor their every move. Lets end the behind the scenes meetings with those insiders, lobbyist and those with special interest.
We now have all witnessed what government is capable of when they are afforded the element of secrecy.