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“The administration should clarify its intent ...,’ he said. ‘People lack confidence in the credibility of our government.’ Even our allies are beginning to suspect what we say, he charged. ‘It’s a difficult thing today to be informed about our government even without all the secrecy,’ he said. ‘With the secrecy, it’s impossible. The American people will do what’s right when they have the information they need.”

Sounds like a familiar refrain from librul HAFs (Hate America Firsters) (or worse: Republican Senator Chuck Hagel. But these lines were uttered by a conservative congressman from Illinois named Donald Rumsfeld back in 1966. Think Progress has the details and more quotes from a variety of news sources from the mid-Sixties.

Speaking of trust in government transparency, there's this poll from the Washington Post

A majority of Americans reject claims by the Bush administration that the insurgency in Iraq is weakening and are divided on whether victory over the insurgents will have a major impact on terrorism elsewhere in the world, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. Barely one in five Americans -- 22 percent -- say they believe that the insurgency is getting weaker while 24 percent believe it is strengthening. More than half -- 53 percent -- say resistance to U.S. and Iraqi government forces has not changed. The Post-ABC poll also found that few Americans agree with Vice President Cheney that the insurgency is in its "last throes." That claim, which Cheney made recently in an interview with Larry King on CNN, has been repeatedly challenged by critics of the administration's Iraq policy and defended by Bush officials. One in four Americans -- 25 percent -- say they believe that the bloody campaign against U.S. forces and the fledgling Iraqi government is on "its last legs." Even among those who think the resistance is weakening, only half believe that the insurgency is in its final stages. As with virtually every facet of the Iraq issue, deep partisan divisions were reflected in views of the current state of the insurgency. More than a third of all Republicans -- 35 percent -- said the insurgents were growing weaker in Iraq, compared to 13 percent of all Democrats and 19 percent of all political independents.

That translates to 65 percent of Rebublicans who have at least some doubts about the last throes.