I'm a firm believer that the president gets final call on what's secret and what's not. If that wasn't the case, you'd have the intelligence agencies basically

I'm a firm believer that the president gets final call on what's secret and what's not. If that wasn't the case, you'd have the intelligence agencies basically running around unfettered. I also understand that it's an election year, and the party that is out of power is going to do their best to make everything into a crisis. Having said all of that, when the administration releases information that affects programs that might have taken large sums of money to develop over many years, that might have many more years of usefulness, that has the potential to change the geopolitical landscape for the country for the worse, and that draws attention from every hacker on the planet? It's a little more serious than the usual election year nonsense. My concern is that I do not believe the country received any benefit at all from the release, and the harm could go for quite some while. Quite frankly when things like this happens it helps make a strong case for the idea that the agencies _should_ keep things from oversight, and I think that's the worst part of the whole thing. We need to get rid of a lot of the secrecy we have -- perhaps 99% or more -- but the things that remain secret should be soberly treated as such. Time will tell what kind of damage has really been done after all the smoke clears. Hopefully not much, but I doubt it.