In a memorandum just made public this week, then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said in 2005 tht the government secrecy system was a failure, that the government was incapable of keeping a secret and policies need to be crafted to deal with that reality.
One current government official said Rumsfeld’s initial premise was wrong. The government could keep secrets but that trying to keep too many secrets for a long time would bring failure. -db
From a commentary in Secrecy News, July 15, 2011 by Steven Aftergood.