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Governments are a function of their laws. I'm not sure what you mean by, 'are allowed and expected to keep secrets from each other'. I don't actually allow or

• grkvlt 8y ago
  Of course governments must keep secrets. These are things like order of battle details for the military; location and other details for nuclear weapons; names and addresses of intelligence officers, informants or defectors; algorithms for decryption of foreign ciphers; and so on. However, in western democracies the secrecy is usually time limited. For example in the United Kingdom we have the 30-year rule[0] which provides for public release of confidential government documents after 30 years (and they are moving to 20 years now) which is a good compromise between transparency and the need for operational secrecy and security. 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty-year_rule https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty-year_rule
  • windows_tips 8y ago
    It is a US crime to knowingly and willfully conceal a material fact "in any matter within the jurisdiction of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of the Government of the United States".[0] [0] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1001 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1001