What Is It About a Uniform?

One of the major challenges of a democracy like ours is weighing the demands of national security against the fundamental principle of openness. A lack of security inolves risk, but without the latter there is no democracy. Democratic process requires in absolute terms that the electorate have all the information necessary to make informed choices. How can we make judgements about whether or not our leaders are doing the right things if we are kept in the dark about the factors that affect their decisions? Executive privelege is a way of telling the people "you might as well not bother to ask, because we sure as heck aren't going to tell."