{"id":1084970,"date":"2023-06-14T05:59:47","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T05:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=285970"},"modified":"2023-06-14T05:59:47","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T05:59:47","slug":"why-were-trumps-stolen-documents-a-secret-from-the-american-people-in-the-first-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/06\/14\/why-were-trumps-stolen-documents-a-secret-from-the-american-people-in-the-first-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Were Trump\u2019s stolen Documents a Secret from the American People in the First Place?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sure, it\u2019s an outrage that Trump would have lied that he had stolen top-secret government files on such things as vulnerability of the US nuclear program, but whether or not that slimy eel manages to slither out of this latest criminal case, it should make Americans of whatever political stripe start demanding an end to all the government secrecy.\u00a0 No one can with a straight face call the US a democracy when all the important information about what this country\u2019s national government is doing is being hidden away under classified, secret, top-secret and other even more restrictive stamps that make it impossible for us to see them, sometimes as in my case, even for decades or generations.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/06\/14\/why-were-trumps-stolen-documents-a-secret-from-the-american-people-in-the-first-place\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/06\/14\/why-were-trumps-stolen-documents-a-secret-from-the-american-people-in-the-first-place\/\">Why Were Trump\u2019s stolen Documents a Secret from the American People in the First Place?<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\"><br>\r\nThis content originally appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/06\/14\/why-were-trumps-stolen-documents-a-secret-from-the-american-people-in-the-first-place\/\" >CounterPunch.org<\/a> and was authored by Dave Lindorff.  <br><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2023\/06\/14\/why-were-trumps-stolen-documents-a-secret-from-the-american-people-in-the-first-place\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sure, it\u2019s an outrage that Trump would have lied that he had stolen top-secret government files on such things as vulnerability of the US nuclear program, but whether or not that slimy eel manages to slither out of this latest criminal case, it should &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":382,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34438,22,228,48834,42796,42607,266,718,43577,43327,27150,42615,42603,44196,44207,42863],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084970"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/382"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1084970"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1086233,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084970\/revisions\/1086233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1084970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1084970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1084970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}