moynihan studied and wrote one of his many books about was government use of secrecy. here is some of that moynihan documentary. it s a romantic delusion that there is a secret. there are none. when things are kept secret, they tend to be wrong. keep that up and you will miss huge events and occupy yourself with marginal and unimportant events. in many ways the 9/11 commission report is an outgrowth of what moynihan was saying about this. the cia with these massive silos of secrets that they couldn t distinguish the value of. the fbi had massive silos and they couldn t distinguish what has value and what doesn t. one of my colleagues on the republican side said you couldn t have a senate with 100 moynihans, but you sure need one or two.