This raises an interesting question. Maybe certain information is kept from the public for the safety of others. If this is the case is keeping certain information secret of more importance then keeping the people informed in order to avoid corruption? The problem with this is how does one decide what information is dangerous and what is not?

Now that there is the potential for private documents to be leaked because of the founding of Wikileaks, will this prevent governments, corportations etc. from doing things behind the public's back? If Japan had known that papers would be revealed demonstrating that the disaster could have been avoided would they have gone to greater lengths to have tried to prevent the atmomic disaster?