Next We'll Hear Testimony from Charlie McCarthy…

As I type, the president is testifying before the 9/11 commission, though (at the White House's insistence) in tandem with Dick Cheney. Even so, no recording or transcript beyond the handwritten notes taken by commission members, will be available. The official reason is that much of the proceedings deal with classified information. Fine. But then why not a redacted transcript? A recording of the portions that don't deal with classified material? I guess that'd require some sort of default presumption that transparency is a good thing.