I would argue that in times of war sealed lips sink entire democracies. If we don't have access to vital information we lose everything.
It will be important to restore those provisions those disclose provisions those release provisions so that presidents are indeed held accountable and their information and papers are made public.
Secrecy doesn't attach to particular parties; it attaches to power. All of the bull work is in place for whomever succeeds. That's my concern.
The mechanics vary from place to place and from office to office. The handling of SBUs can be different in the same agency just across the hall one from another. There are virtually no standards.
The SBUs have spread like kudzu and are choking off everyone's ability to see what the hell's going on in government.
There's no faster way or surer way to consolidate power and disenfranchise critics than to operate in secret. So this plays squarely into the promotion of the unitary executive. That's one factor.
...In the vast majority of drug experiments it is not uncommon for none or one or two of hundreds of patients to benefit from the drug.
These human experiments have gone largely unchallenged and unquestioned by Congress the medical profession and the scientific community at large.