Quote Originally Posted by Mr.FixIt View Post
I work for the US Government in a security occupation, If I tell you who I work for they will have to kill me! The actions that we take on a daily basis are specifically related to the intel that we are provided. But the public is, and should be for national security reasons, ignorant of most of said intel. Therefore, the public assumes that our security processes are ignorant because of their lack of knowlege about the rationale. I can only assume, based on my specific experiences, that the same applies to our lack of understanding in the water boarding debate and the consequential public outcry.
I can understand the need for keeping secrets in any government. Revealing everything they know could compromise some intelligence assets, both here and abroad. An enemy who knows what we know could figure out how we came to know it. I don't have a problem with keeping those kinds of secrets. Or about strategic assets, such as the stealth program, which was extremely secret at one point, though apparently less so now.

But it's my understanding (and I have no first-hand knowledge of this) that the vast majority of information which has been classified "Secret" by any government, is done so more to protect the reputations and/or dignity of government officials, not to protect the security of the country. It's my opinion that keeping information regarding the activities at Guantanamo Bay secret is, for the most part, one of those kinds of secrets.