re: #305 gunnison

One point that is worth adding here is that the official responses in cases like this often come down to “trust us”.

For a response of that type, I will be much more skeptical if is coming from the G W Bush administration than from the Obama administration. For Obama press releases, I’m skeptical, but I do not start out with the presumption that every factual statement is a lie, which is where I ended up with the Bushies.

The bottom line is that there should be enough transparency in the process so that official reliance on “trust us” is minimized.