In his 1998 treatise, Secrecy: The American Experience, Moynihan made the case that the Cold War-era mania for secrecy had outlived its usefulness—indeed, was becoming counterproductive ...

The American founders rarely spoke of democracy ... Only then did a reform coalition in the House sponsor a set of “anti-secrecy” measures that ushered in a major increase in the public ...

Students of bureaucratic incentives will find this familiar. In Secrecy: The American Experience (1998), Daniel Patrick Moynihan criticized secrecy as a security tool. Drawing on his experiences ...

Following his retirement in 1955, William Friedman warned that the NSA's “secrecy virus” would one day infect the American body politic. The NSA, chartered in November 1952 with a secret order ...

Today the deployment of the “deep state” by populist politicians like Trump taps into a rich vein of popular suspicion in American society that partly resulted from excessive state secrecy and ...

Factor 1: The extent to which information is known outside the company (the more extensively the information is known outside the company, the less likely that it is a protectable trade secret).