They say sunlight is the best disinfectant.
There is a lot to disinfect when it comes to government malfeasance. The federal government–and a lot of state governments too, although that is a different story–is like a third-world hospital covered in MRSA. It is in need of a lot of disinfection.
Part of Trump’s shock-and-awe strategy to reform the federal government must be the rapid, even reckless, declassification of documents that were classified for questionable political reasons. FOIA requests should presumptively be assumed legitimate and the bias must be for transparency. And most of all, the worst of the abuses should be revealed as quickly and openly as possible.
If mistakes will be made, except when sources, methods, and in military matters, bureaucrats should be forced to defend any request for redactions.
The drive for transparency isn’t…
