The Right To Know

I'd like to pose a question to you out there: Do we have the right to know what's going on with our country?

The reason why I ask is this: One of the main reasons (among several) that I don't like the current administration is they are secretive. They feel that the American Public don't have the right to know what they are doing. Yet, I remember under President Bill Clinton the Republican Congress and Senate wanted to know everything about his personal life and his sex life leading to a waste of $60 million of our taxpayer dollars.

I remember how the right-wing news and talk media called for Bill Clinton's impeachment based on his private personal affairs (boy I guess that had more then one meaning didn't it).

Here is why I bring this up. As I stated above one of my main pet peeves is the fact that the Bush Administration is too secretive. Here are a few examples:

1) We can start with the energy meetings. They wouldn't let the public know who was there and what was discussed in fact went all the way to the Supreme Court to stop it. (remember the duck hunting trip Scalia took with Cheney right before the case).
If there is nothing to hide why wouldn't he have the meeting minutes realeased.

2) The Iraq War. He played the public for what they were fools. He had the right-wing news and talk media on his side. He kept saying Saddam was a threat he was going to send weapons of mass destruction (which when he had them we gave them to him so the people who gave him the weapons should be on trial as well). But when he was called on the fact that there were none he went and changed the story to Saddam attacked us on 9/11 and he has forgot that it was Osama Bin Laden who actually did. Now instead of saying hey I screwed up but we are theere and have to stay there (which I would not like anymore but at least it's the truth) we are stuck in the middle of a civil war in Iraq which no one in the administration seemed to anticipate happening. But again in the right-wing controlled news and talk media no one seems to be upset about that are they?

3) Continuing with the wiretapping. If it was upto Bush we wouldn't have found out about it. In fact I reported earlier in the week where Sen. DeWyne of Ohio wants a law that makes it illegal to report about that. Think about that will you?

4) Guantanamo and Abu Gharib prisons. No one with access to lawyers, no charges filed just torture. We hardly know what's going on there.

5) Katrina. He looked in the camera and said there was no way to know that the levees would break. He conveniently misplaced the tape that warned him otherwise which was found recently.

6) Valerie Plame. Emails that were requested by the prosecutor were misplaced. Nevermind all emails sent in the White House are archived these weren't?? Come on.

Yet again no outcry from the right-wing news and talk media.

Either we have the right to know what's going on as taxpayers or we don't. We can't have it so it's ok for one person or party to keep secrets and not another.