The New York Times - 10/17/13, By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT and CHARLIE SAVAGE
During his tenure at the Defense Department, Jeh C. Johnson helped shape the Obama administration’s national security policies. Alex Wong/Getty Images
But he has also criticized the Obama administration for being too secretive about matters like targeted killings using drone strikes.'
“The problem is that the American public is suspicious of executive power shrouded in secrecy,” Mr. Johnson said in a speech at Fordham University this year. “In the absence of an official picture of what our government is doing, and by what authority, many in the public fill the void by imagining the worst.”
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