Francis Kukuyama raised an important issue in an Op Ed piece in the October 8 issue of the NY Times. For some time now the administration has been back backfiring on information by reclassifying previously open information to secret information. There is of course no good reason for this. There is much in our history as a country that we would regret later; that is not terribly surprising given everyone’s ability to make mistakes. But this is an administration obsessed with admitting no mistakes – not only by them, but also of any American administration (well- except perhaps the Clinton administration). Some of this back=fired reclassification is simply ludicrous: it makes secret information that has been widely published here and abroad for years. Fukuyama makes the salient point that the better informed we are the better decision we can make as an informed population.  Maybe that’s the point…