Washington cover-up

"Washington Cover-Up" by Clark R. Mollenhoff is a look into the world of government secrets and the harm they can cause to democracy. Mollenhoff uses his experience as a journalist to show how keeping information hidden from the public can allow corruption and bad management to thrive, blocking important investigations and keeping citizens in the dark about what their government is doing. The book starts by highlighting how important it is for information to be freely available so that people can hold their leaders responsible, and it uses examples from the past to show how leaders have used executive powers to keep information from being released.