OFFICIALS LEGISLATION INTEREST GROUPS PUBLIC STATEMENTS COMMITTEES VETOES

Issue Position: Refuse All Privileged and Secret Correspondence

Issue Position

Date: Jan. 27, 2019
Issues: Technology and Communication

The people have the right to know everything that the government knows.

The people own the government. If it is the government's business, it's the people's business.

If it is a secret to the people, then it is not of the government.

In this office, as in all other offices that I may ever seek or hold, I will refuse ALL privileged or secret correspondence. If the information comes to me in the office, I will publish it. All of it. Immediately. 100% of all correspondence of this office and any other office I ever hold will be published. It doesn't matter if it is interesting or not, you have the right to look at it and decide for yourself. It's your government.

I will never, under any circumstances, seek or accept any sort of government clearance for secret information. If I am required to keep something secret, then I will announce who it is that required of me, what precisely they required, and the authority under which they required.


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