How Much Does the Public Have a Right to Know?

Meditations on Secrecy

Should JHMR still cough up that old engineer's report?

The Cowboy Picayune-Sunny Times Editorial Board

Filed 7.25.07

With a regularity approaching tyranny, the Center for Public Integrity recently expanded its litany of “Fs” Wyoming has received for transparency in government.

This time, it was the Wyoming Supreme Court and the office of the Cowboy state’s centrist democratic governor, Dave Freudenthal, who got the low marks, according to the editorial "Another 'F' for Wyoming" by veteran capitol beat reporter Joan Barron of the Casper Star-Tribune.

Last month, in an editorial calling for Vice-President Dick Cheney to resign, we theorized that the Veep’s obsessive penchant for secrecy and disdain for the meddling press was a byproduct of his having cut his political teeth in Wyoming.

Then again, it could just be that because the Veep thinks 9/11 turned America into Rome that means he gets to be Ceasar without the cool ass Laurence Olivieresque haircut.

(Click & Read on via NewWest.net)

Photo captions & credits: "Sir Laurence Olivier as 'Hamlet' discussing pressing world and metaphysical affairs with Sir Richard 'Dick' Cheney" courtsey of Allposters.com