Letter to the editor: Democrats & secrecy

“The very word ‘secrecy’ is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. … Our way of life is under attack.”

John F. Kennedy knew the extreme dangers of government agencies like the CIA and FBI abusing their powers or being corrupted. He tried to warn us, we didn’t listen and less than two years later, he was murdered and nobody said anything like that ever again.

Currently, we have Democrats protecting that same secrecy. Out of one side of their mouths they say “declassify the entire Mueller report” and out of the other side they say “you can’t declassify the documents pertaining to how the investigation was conducted.” Documents that would show what intelligence began the investigation, which American citizens were surveilled, and how it came to be that a sitting Democratic president allowed anything remotely resembling spying on a then-Republican candidate for president?

But it wasn’t just spying. Did a sitting president weaponize the Justice Department and the American intelligence agencies against his political enemies? That question deserves an answer, and in JFK’s free and open society, we would get it.

It should be the biggest story in history, but for some reason the mainstream media doesn’t care to investigate. Quite the contrary, they’re fighting alongside the Democrats to keep these documents classified. Which is a new low even for them.

Branden Lowanse

West Newton