HOW COME WE CAN'T READ THE AGREEMENT?

The criminal Bush regime can't seem to break its habit of keeping crucial information from the American people. In this case, it has decided to keep the SOFA with Iraq under wraps, according to the NYT:

In Washington, the Bush administration sent Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates to Capitol Hill to brief lawmakers on the agreement. They did so behind closed doors, and the administration has not released a copy of the agreement, which has been published in Iraqi newspapers. Officials have repeatedly declined to discuss its terms in detail.

For those interested, McClatchy has translated the Status of Forces Agreement and I wonder why the Times didn't bother to?