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Originally Posted by specialone
My fault Col  |
That's quite OK mate
My point being that sometimes keeping secrets is for our own benefit (and sometimes you have to lie to protect a secret), and we are not necessarily well enough informed, with a good enough understanding of the issues, to know whether that info should be public domain or not.
Obviously there is a line that can be crossed when lying to your public, but Tony Blair and Gordon Brown did that, and they are no longer in office.
It's a bit of an idealistic argument given modern governments I know, but a valid one nonetheless, and we will never know better than those in office, whether or not any particular piece of information needs to remain secret.