secrecy

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  10/18/2021
  

  Executive Privilege was out of Control Before Steve Bannon Claimed It

  by Timothy Noah

  Perhaps Steve Bannon is doing a favor for the cause of government accountability by showing the outlandishness of the entire doctrine, which has managed to pass from Dwight Eisenhower's strategy for stonewalling Joseph McCarthy to a hallowed totem of the out-of-control presidency.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  11/16/2020
  

  Will Trump Burn the Evidence?

  by Jill Lepore

  Reckoning with the Trump adminstration's actions and assigning moral or criminal sanction to any misdeeds will probably be compromised by the destruction or failure to maintain presidential records.