<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 4:57 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Transparency is the enemy of corruption.</i></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4">I agree.<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> And just three days ago the </span>chief of the intelligence office John Ratcliffe<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> said he would stop telling Congress about efforts by foreign governments to influence our upcoming election: </span></font></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/29/us/politics/election-security-intelligence-briefings-congress.html">No More  Election Briefings for Congress, Intelligence Chief Says</a></font><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">John K Clark</font></div></div></div>