4 ms·
Should the government ever be allowed to have secrets? To what level should government correspondence be public? Some situations (e.g. the Manhattan Project)
by walkon 16y ago
Should the government ever be allowed to have secrets? To what level should government correspondence be public? Some situations (e.g. the Manhattan Project) necessitate secrecy. What exactly is wrong with that, at least in some situations, and why are we so willing to assume WikiLeaks/Assange knows what should (or shouldn't) be leaked?
Just trying to understand as it appears the overall thought process here is, "leak everything - the end."
- redrobot5050 16y agoWhen Dick Cheney/Karl Rove/Scooter Libby "outed" Valerie Plame, they gave away a dummy corporation used by the CIA for agents like Valerie who (mostly) did not operate under a cover identity but gathered intelligence. It is estimated that by blowing her cover, over 70 other intelligence-friendly agents or sources were captured, imprisoned, or killed.