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Malmab personnel interviewed at the end of the article: > But isn’t concealing documents based on footnotes in books an attempt to lock the barn door after the
by Pils 6y ago
Malmab personnel interviewed at the end of the article:
> But isn’t concealing documents based on footnotes in books an attempt to lock the barn door after the horses have bolted?
> “I gave you an example that this needn’t be the case. If someone writes that the horse is black, if the horse isn’t outside the barn, you can’t prove that it’s really black.”
For additional context, this is with regards to the scholarship of Benny Morris[0]. Plenty of liberal democracies use and abuse the concept of state secrets, but to abuse it in such a petty and transparent way feels...counterproductive?
[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Morris https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Morris