Summary
Secrecy for the sake of secrecy awakens suspicion.
President William Jefferson Clinton and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton blundered by wrapping in secrecy the President's Task Force on National Health Care Reform chaired by the first lady, a folly upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, Inc. vs. Clinton (1993). The health care proposals that ensued shipwrecked in Congress.See the full content of this document
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Pyrrhic Secrecy Victory
President George W. Bush might have profited from the Clinton example. But like characteristic White House occupants, the Bush administration generally forgets nothing, and learns nothing. Accordingly, Vice President Richard B. Cheney aped the Clinton blunder in a U.S. Supre...
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