Secrecy
Federal law enforcement agencies, such as the Justice Department and Department of Homeland Security, have assumed an unprecedented amount of authority to detain and spy on individuals. Yet the public has been kept unaware of how these powers have been used. Government secrecy is a concept completely at odds with the idea of government accountability. As U.S. District Court Judge Damon Keith said on the need to open up deportation hearings, "Democracy dies behind closed doors."
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We need a full and thorough Torture investigation.
Attorney General Eric Holder finally appointed an independent prosecutor to investigate torture -- but it does not go far enough. We need a full and thorough Torture investigation.
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