Bloomberg editors call National Security Agency secrecy policy ‘dysfunctional’

Bloomberg editors Max Berley and Tobin Harshaw were unimpressed with NSA’s declassification of 50,000 pages of historic documents and the agency’s boast that the act demonstrated the Obama administration’s commitment to openness.

The editors said one of the documents released was already long in the public domain and that the release of the documents was a pathetic diversion from the administration’s poor record on open government. -db

From a commentary for Bloomberg Businessweek, November 8, 2011, by Editors Max Berley and Tobin Harshaw.

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