Secrecy as mode of governance
summary
Secrecy appears as practice: the Stasi’s 40 years of files become public after the 1989 revolution and the archives stay open Stasi archives opened 26 years, but access requires heavy redaction to protect victims; trade talks hide draft texts in supervised reading rooms where visitors bring a pen only, no cameras or laptops reading rooms with pen-only, no cameras. MI5 historically holds hundreds of thousands of files on citizens, whistleblowers face exile or prison, and recent news shows the US threatening German MPs with denied access if they disclose what they see.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Introduction
- 17:51Daniel Ellsberg
- 22:32The Stasi
- 23:54Access to human rights
- 24:53Stasi
- 30:07Secret power
- 33:09Intelligence agencies
- 36:41Political subversion
- 38:58MP files
- 40:45Undercover police
- 41:51Conclusion
- 42:44TTip
- 45:36Negotiations
- 47:02Reading Rooms
- 49:41Protests
- 53:05Effects of Secrecy
- 56:28Remarks
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