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.
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