[dragnet2]

So are these closed door meetings in which only the insiders are privy? If I had it my way, I'd monitored every phone call and rip the doors off every office in D.C.

There should be no closed door meetings. Closed door meetings involving government officials has brought us nothing but disaster.

Outside of meetings involving national security issues, I personally feel *all* meeting involving those in government should be recorded, monitored and made public in real time.

[mtairycitizen]

The meeting is not closed door. Cameras are allowed.
Reporters are not. I assume the video will be viewable.

We do not need the media telling us what we see.
If you want to know what happened, watch the video?

[dead]

So are these closed door meetings in which only the insiders are privy? If I had it my way, I'd monitored every phone call and rip the doors off every office in D.C. There should be no closed door meetings. Closed door meetings involving government officials has brought us nothing but disaster.

Did you read the article? Did you even read the headline?

There will be photographers and television crews in the room. Does that qualify as a "closed door" meeting?

[SamuraiScot]

Closed door meetings involving government officials has brought us nothing but disaster.

Diplomacy—the art of exercising influence without killing the opposition on the spot—does involve the use of discretion. For instance, there is a legitimate need to develop personal rapport, since all negotiation is personal. There arises also the opportunity to threaten discreetly, if necessary, but leave no paper trail. And so on.

Being a federated republic necessarily involves delegating various activities to maximize our effectiveness as a nation, and negotiation is surely one of them. There is a cost, to the degree that our representatives may get sucked into feeling they and other leaders are members of a special, wiser, gnostic group. But that's why we have elections. I can't imagine any of the Founding Fathers would have disagreed.

[GoLightly]

Far as I know, all television cameras also record sound. We're gonna get an opportunity for the unabridged version, instead of the one that has been messaged by an activist masquerading as the press playing gotcha.

[Right Wing Assault]

So are these closed door meetings in which only the insiders are privy?

There was a TV camera crew there. Not very closed door.

[LibertyRocks]

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.