FDR and the rest claimed to mean that news of ship sailings or troop movements, etc. must be kept secret from the other side. But why would reports of CIA gulags and torture chambers aide the Iraqi resistance? Might it not worry them? In fact, of course, the fascisticons want information about federal war crimes kept secret from the Americans (and the Arabs, thus the bombings of al-Jazeera bureaus). Already, the entire secret classification system is designed to prevent revelations that embarrass the state.