Carol on "State Secrets Protection"

There's not much evidence that "protecting state secrets" ever gets invoked for any purpose other than to prevent embarrassment to officials who have behaved incompetently, irresponsibly, or illegally, but it's a dead cert that it's a source of injustice and erodes freedom.

[Avedon Carol, "Let the sun shine", The Sideshow, 12 February 2009]

Posted on February 12, 2009 at 12.02 by jns · Permalink
In: All, Common-Place Book

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  1. Written by S.W. Anderson
    on Saturday, 14 February 2009 at 00.05
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    Uh, yeah, there's so much reason to believe that. I know there is.
    And yet, situations do come up where officials should not divulge
    things they know because to do so would be to compromise national
    security, the safety of our CIA people, informants and/or our
    military. It really is a conundrum.

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