WA hat does the audience need to know it? White House Trump is proud to be the most transparent administration in history – although commentators suggested that the unintended leakage of military plans to the journalist may have happened because the higher figures were using correspondence applications such as reference to avoid supervision. Last week, she released thousands of documents pages about the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Donald Trump announced that the Kennedy family and the American people “deserve transparency and truth.”
It is amazing, that this declared commitment to share information comes at a time when its administration is writing down the data collection and a mop of current knowledge from government sites. The main drivers seem to be the desire to remove the “waking” content and global heating data, and reduce federal spending. Information resources are targeted damage and guarantee. Other political factors may also affect federal records. Last month, Mr. Trump The head of the national archives dismissed Without explanation, after complaining about the body’s involvement in achieving the Ministry of Justice in its dealings with classified documents.
The effect is already painful painfully. Not only did the cuts in the National Oceanic and Attrads Administration affect climate records, but also affected the harsh weather risk tool. The results of the cleansing are ridiculous as well as harmful. It seems that the web page on Enola Gay, a plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, has been marked with deletion because it was wrong to refer to LGBTQ+problems.
However, the contrast between the discharge of data on Kennedy’s assassination and the removal of other materials is not a contradiction. He talks about volumes about the administration’s approach in fact and knowledge, which it considers emergency and a matter of rest. (Differently, it is also ax The body that provides most federal financing of libraries.)
The 1963 presidential assassination is not just an event around which multiple theories revolves, but it helped feed a broader culture of conspiracy theory and lack of confidence in power. This has been spread to the strange and extremist allegations that she adopted and even promoted by Mr. Trump or the personalities around him, including the loyalty, and Pizzagate and Qanon. These fictional novels were increasingly severe consequences. The facts, sciences and rationality themselves are attacked.
During his first term, Trump’s assistants promoted “alternative facts” without shame with the spread of actual facts as “fake news”. Washington Post He made more than 30,000 false or misleading claims Over those four years. This time, his administration removes current information sources. Websites, data groups and other information from federal health websites – such as diseases control centers – have disappeared last month, although some have returned to appear since then. One world The name It is “a burning digital book”. The Union of Primible Scholars to caution “Science is the importance that was made in many American agencies, institutions and universities [is] Under an increase in assault. “
Maintaining basic national information and records is the work of those who face destructive power Foreign invasionsJihadist or dictators. But with the burning of these fires, a variety of but a group of individuals – the “obsessive who cares”, has committed. To They fight by keeping data before deleting it. Their impressive effort to defend the truth deserves support.