Democracies Die Behind Closed Doors...

....Not to mention stolen elections and mad cowboy disease.

MySA.com: Metro State:

The Express-News reported Friday that St. Mary's University's Center for Terrorism Law has received a $1 million Defense Department grant 'to limit the scope of the Freedom of Information Act.'

Journalists get slippery-slope worries when we hear the Pentagon wants to alter a law that allows the sun to shine on what politicians and government officials do behind closed doors.

As a federal judge in Michigan (Damon J. Keith) said a couple years ago: 'Democracies die behind closed doors.'