Already happens with about every court case for civilians. It starts as a big deal then everyone forgets about it in a week -_-;;
Only in your big-name crimes that draw attention from the media.
Even so, Jurors are intentionally isolated from the outside world during the course of trials. They are not to leak information to anyone, and they are not to be swayed by news reports attempting to cover the case.
When an organization is at war with the USA as a whole it is a bit hard to target specific people, even if you can identify them, when they have much bigger targets to plan for. Perhaps for special OPS against someone we are not at war with this would apply but we shouldn't be doing special OPS against countries we are not at war with anyways. That is why we have so many enemies today.
There are half as many hostile nations as you seem to think there are, but easily twice as many enemies as you would expect.
I'll let you ponder on what, exactly, that means.
What it implies, however, is that individual targets are the 'in' thing, right now.
Also nowadays all you need is a photo and some time on the internet to find someone. If they are on facebook you can find them -_-;;
Some soldier shoots your brother's roomate's friends' dog's clansmate. Even if you saw the event happen - you do not know the man's name, would not be taking photos of him (we look for such things - taking photos, particularly of a checkpoint and a shooting incident, there - would get security officers all kinds of fired up. The guy would be caught - and in some areas, taking a photo of an incident like that is grounds for a good shoot.
Anyway - even if you got a clean photo - the soldier is likely wearing sunglasses, some kind of cloth protection over their face, the list goes on.
And it does take more than a photo to find someone, these days. A lot of people in the military do not have facebook accounts for various reasons - and even if they did, "search for photo" technologies are relatively primitive and would not do much to reduce operator burden (and that assumes a picture of them in fatigues is available to the public).
The government is not a person. The government is suppose to be the people's collective will. They should HAVE to report to the people about what they are doing or else they will do things that are against our best interests. Freedom of the press was designed to give the press the ability to find government secrets and reveal them.
Freedom of the press was designed so that the press could never be prosecuted for publishing factual information - particularly in the event that factual information was damaging to any given interests within the government.
It does not mean that the press can simply walk in and demand any information they so desire. It means that they cannot be prosecuted, harassed, etc for the publishing of information that is factual (making shit up is illegal, and certain forms of irresponsible reporting are also illegal).
They are usually failing at that since they cause most of our national defense issues by sticking their nose into everyone's business and using special OPS for every little thing they -THINK- they can fix. They fail at it, piss off both sides, then we have a new enemy and the government is hiding their little failure yet again.
This is irrelevant to the discussion at hand.
Though, once again, you are grossly overestimating the number of enemies that have been created in this manner.
Secrets should be temporary and they should NOT hide failures. If anything failures should be brought to light so that we can try to fix the problems in the future. Same thing with the Catholic church and pedofiles. If they just accepted their failures and tried to fix them neither would have as many problems as they do now.
Secrets are 'temporary.' When I enlisted, I signed an 80 year NDA.
Technically, I've probably already broken that thing (along with every other military service member) - but there are things that do need to be kept secret for a considerable amount of time. I know strengths and weaknesses of certain strategies, tactics, equipment, etc within our arsenal. I walk up to military bases and shudder at how easy it would be for me to sneak in or, in some cases, barge right in. I know how we search vehicles for weapons and bombs, and know exactly the places we knew some industrious individual (or group) could hide a bomb... but it's impractical to search every vehicle in that location.
These are things that do not need to be public knowledge.
But they do represent valid concerns - and there are ways of voicing those concerns in a responsible manner.
We do pass way too many laws without fixing old ones. No one wants to admit to failures in the law so they just keep duck taping the leaks -_-;;
That's not really what they are doing. They aren't trying to 'fix' anything.
There are two things a representative does (generally speaking) - try to bring federal spending to his/her state, and try to bring federal spending in line with his/her ideal picture of the government. Occasionally, they will write a law that tries to enforce their vision of morality.
They aren't concerned with a functional system. "We have to pass the law before we know what's in it." The reason representatives approved of that bill was because it brought federal spending to their states - and happy, content people tend to vote for the incumbent in elections.
