Veteran newsman Walter Cronkite’s column has this to say about the way the Bush Administration has been running things:

One sometimes gets the impression that this administration believes that how it runs the government is its business and no one else’s. It is certainly not the business of Congress. And if it’s not the business of the people’s representatives, it’s certainly no business of yours or mine. But this is a dangerous condition for any representative democracy to find itself in. The tight control of information, as well as the dissemination of misleading information and outright falsehoods, conjures up a disturbing image of a very different kind of society. Democracies are not well-run nor long-preserved with secrecy and lies.

Damned hard to argue with that. Read the whole piece here, or (no doubt) in several other places, as he’s syndicated.