Hello Jack and welcome to the board.
Nice to see someone else here with unbiased common sense.........(ahem).
Yes, our "government in the sunshine" laws, which were enacted to make our public more accountable, have actually been subverted by the very administration we support to keep them honest.
What a laugh.
Those up-to-nogoodniks are having a real ball playing judge and jury, while making up the rules as they go along.

>"three new agencies were given the power to stamp documents as "Secret" — the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Health and Human Services."

Well, you just know they'll be sewing up the lips of the EPA on the polluters who are contributing the most to their last/next campaign.
Dept. of Agriculture??
Oh no, keep the damage being done by those overbreeding GM crops off the front page news!
AND who on what board is backing up who.
And now the Dept. of Health and Human Services??
Man, if anyone needs accountability, they do!
Something really FISHY is going on here.

All these new "faith-based iniatives" flowing from this department as "discretionary grants"....LOL
Look at what Pat Robertson did with HIS $500,000.....His Operation Blessing International which supposedly distributes aid in Africa, was actually being diverted to Robertsons' African adventure in diamond mining. (thank Norfolks' Virginian Pilot for that one).

Oh, while American sleeps, the robber barons take everything.
We don't need no rose colored glasses, we have blinders on!
;~)