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When an organization gets too big, it is statistically likely there will be leaks. I think the US has forgotten or willfully ignored the lessons learned from t
by arjn 12y ago
When an organization gets too big, it is statistically likely there will be leaks.
I think the US has forgotten or willfully ignored the lessons learned from the past 100 years of espionage.
- higherpurpose 12y agoWhen more than 95 percent of the "classified" information doesn't deserve to be classified in the first place, leaks will happen, too.
- homulilly 12y agoYeah, ironically, the US's approach to state secrets (as in fucking everything is a state secret) makes it harder for them to keep things under control.
- AnimalMuppet 12y agoBut in that case, a leak only has a 5% chance of being something that anyone actually cares about. ("Anyone" here does not mean the overly paranoid bureaucrat that classified it, it means pretty much anyone else.)
- perrylaj 12y agoNot necessarily. The other 95% (as evidenced by Manning's leaks) often contain information of importance to commercial enterprise -- information that should likely be of public record anyway if it's being communicated through publicly funded channels.