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Agree, sunlight seems to be the best medicine, for the people to actually know what they're paying their government to do. Secret courts and secret lists have no place in a free, democratic society. They are a reversion to the age of absolute monarchs.

In this context, I highly recommend Trevor Paglen's Blank Spots on the Map, where he describes the "black world" created and expanded since world war II, with an interesting observation that being hidden (and thus unaccountable) seems to be accompanied by abuse and lawlessness.

It's far past time to tear away most of the "top secret" veil that serves mainly to keep the US citizenry unjustifiably in the dark about much of what the executive branch is doing.