The panacea for all reticence.

I can't keep it to myself anymore.

And his story was hushed as he assimilated.

The matter was complicated, and his concern wasn t confidentiality.

As we struggled, continued secrecy allowed an explosion of corruption and abuse of office.

In Gaza the terrorists and those who launch rockets against Israel represent a threat to your lives... ...and to those of your families.

Perversely, it will lead to greater secrecy.

If you put shame in a Petri dish, it needs three things to grow exponentially secrecy, silence and judgment.

The Prime Minister s Office called an urgent meeting of the editors of all major Israeli news outlets to ask for their cooperation in silencing the story.

George W. Bush has shown the dangers of excessive secrecy and confining decision making to a narrow circle of sycophants.

This raises the question of why governments keep secrets at all, and whether those reasons are justified.

Complacency and politics gave the terrorists more protection than silence or camouflage ever could.

One cannot help but marvel at how discreetly this topic is being dealt with by Merkel and Steinmeier.

The worst possible outcome would be to pick someone who shares Greenspan s inclinations holding data tightly, monopolizing decision making, and attempting to overawe colleagues.

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But I could do nothing, because the women chose to remain anonymous, and because the university treated each case as top secret.

The Council of Ministers of Serbia and Montenegro and the Government of the Republic of Serbia have so far granted waivers regarding official and military secrets to 350 members of the army and police, as well as Government officials.

In this regard, it was observed that mechanisms for executive clemency did not constitute an adequate means of redress because such measures were different from judicial remedies, tended towards confidentiality or secrecy, and excluded standards of legal due process and equality of the parties.

At the same time, Japan reaffirms its strong concern that the country's policy of concealment up to October 2003 has resulted in many breaches of its obligations to comply with its safeguards agreement with IAEA.

Few women report rape cases due to cultural reticence or fear of stigmatization, though as a result of intensified sensitization more victims were reported to have come forward in the last few months.

Indeed, their serene patience stands in stark contrast to the anxious reticence of Russian leaders, who have yet to surmount the humiliation that Russia suffered as a result of the Soviet Union s disintegration at the end of the Cold War.

At the same time, Romania s experience demonstrates that official secrecy remains a threat to the core values of democratic governance, and that only constant vigilance, in both established and young democracies, can prevent its encroachment.

Perversely, it will lead to greater secrecy. The message that is almost certainly going through every major power is be careful what you commit to writing.

NEW YORK In the weeks before and after the Copenhagen climate change conference last December, the science of climate change came under harsh attack by critics who contend that climate scientists have deliberately suppressed evidence and that the science itself is severely flawed.

Facebook inadvertently raised this issue of emotional manipulation and unintended consequences indirectly and in one context, by being secretive about its research and not giving people the chance to opt out beforehand. (Now, that would have been a smart choice!)

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange argues that the answer is no, and that greater transparency creates a better society for all people. This raises the question of why governments keep secrets at all, and whether those reasons are justified.

So totalitarian or authoritarian states more interested in hiding their own oppression than fairly judging other nations can easily trigger a sort of political pogrom against any democracy that annoys enough tyrants.