Secrecy, surveillance and lies are important topics when it comes to political communication. Secrecy shows how people who holds the secrets perceive each other and determines what is consider top secret. Also, determines the arena that top secret information could be shared. Surveillance is part of secrecy. Surveillance that is used by the government gathers information that they don’t want others to possess. Conversations in society are tampered with government lies. Most people expect that government will lie. The legitimacy of the secrecy, surveillance and lies of government are examined. These three topics are not democratic because it endangers the free marketplace of ideas and effects democratic decision making in a negative way. The
