Why do you then support secrecy Mr. Carter?

Former president Jimmy Carter lectures us today in the Washington Post with a “We Need Fewer Secrets” where he solemnly advises us that “access to information advances citizens' trust in their government, allowing people to understand policy decisions and monitor their implementation.” Well as this is something that most citizens would full heartedly subscribe we need to ask Mr. Carter what he was then up to when in Venezuela his Carter Foundation gave support to an election where the opposition was not allowed to scrutinize what they felt was a very murky list of eligible voters, or access to the vote counting carried out by programmable electronic in a quite non-transparent way. Carter ends up declaring “We cannot take freedom of information for granted. Our democracy depends on it.” Mr. Carter, as a Venezuelan, might I humbly advance the possibility that so does our.