Comments on: Space nuclear roundtable, behind closed doors http://www.spacepolitics.com/2004/08/05/space-nuclear-roundtable-behind-closed-doors/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=space-nuclear-roundtable-behind-closed-doors Because sometimes the most important orbit is the Beltway... Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:35:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: Anonymous http://www.spacepolitics.com/2004/08/05/space-nuclear-roundtable-behind-closed-doors/#comment-1112 Fri, 06 Aug 2004 15:21:03 +0000 http://www.districtofbaseball.com/spacepolitics/?p=277#comment-1112 Things like this are often closed for simple reasons–the size of the room and catering concerns, etc. If they’re providing lunch, they will want to keep the meeting small.

In addition, closed meetings theoretically allow people to be more open in discussing issues–people are reluctant to talk if members of the press or even the general public may be there. But I’ve seen even closed workshops where the government bureaucrats get nervous about saying even very unremarkable things. (And sometimes it’s fun to startle them by mentioning that their big secret appeared in the newspaper already.)

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