I have been for all of my adult life a proponenet of "Sunshine" laws.  My reading of history tells me clearly that our founders believed that all government business should be conducted in the open so that citizens could be informed and make informed decisions.

 The one consission I'm willing to make is that there are some occasions where lives would be endangered, so some informaiton shoudl be temporarily secret. 

The current Administration recognizes that information is the currency of power.  However, they are so power hungry that they are unwilling to share.  Thier default position is to withhold information so only they have the power.

 President Bush is a "Corporatist."  Pure and simple.  His Administration and everything it does is aimed at increasing corporate hegemony.  This can only come to pass in secret.