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Aye. The public has a right to know what the government does. If the government can secretly do whatever they like, without caring about what the public thinks, without caring what the public voted for, then what's the difference from a dictatorship?
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Ummm, how does secrecy in government in any way have anything to do with the difference between a dictatorship and a democracy?
Honestly, are you suggesting that all American citizens be allowed to, say, know the deployment of our special forces at all times?
The public does NOT have any right to know everything the government does - I'm not sure where you've gleaned said "right" from, but it does not exist. We, in the US, elect our officials with implicit trust to do what is in our best interest, INCLUDING when it is in our best interests to not know.
Obviously there are limits to this, but complete transparency would be foolish - in fact, should we be completely transparent, we would be exceptionally vulnerable to destruction. Then where does your non-existant "right" to complete transparency come from?
Ultimately, the wisdom of classification is that the public rightly doesn't trust itself.