Commentary: Washington's fetish for secrecy will redact democracy
by Karen J. Greenberg, Los Angeles Times
May 16, 2019
4 minutes
The Czech author Milan Kundera began his 1979 novel, "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting," by describing two photographs. In the first, two men are standing side by side, a Czech nationalist later executed for his views and the country's Communist ruler. In the second, the dissenter is gone, airbrushed out. Today, if Kundera hadn't written that opening to his book, only someone with a long memory or a penchant for research would know that the two men had ever shared a podium. In the world of Donald Trump and Robert S. Mueller III, we might say that the
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