21.   But Judge Scheindlin said she would monitor the case and review future filings to make sure that continued secrecy was necessary.

22.   Campaign secrecy is a bipartisan sport.

23.   Even then, however, she explained that the secrecy was to protect the governor and his aides, not the donors.

24.   For that matter, so was secrecy.

25.   For the safety of the mother and child, secrecy is very important, said Sister Marie, a Rwandan nun who runs the orphanage.

26.   Gingrich now says that the secrecy was a mistake and that future Gopac donors will be made public.

27.   He said secrecy was part of his Afghanistan training.

28.   His secrecy was not surprising.

29.   If secrecy is a concern here, perhaps the Mayor and Board could both agree to take the unprecedented step of doing their interviews in public.

30.   Immigration and intelligence officials have argued in the past that such secrecy is necessary to protect intelligence-gathering methods and the lives of informers.