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| Subject: Secrets and lies in a flawed system Sun Sep 08, 2013 12:51 am | |
| Edward Snowden should be hauled back to face the music - but make it massed naval bands and perhaps Barack Obama could throw in the Congressional Medal of Honour to acknowledge Snowden's national security leaks as a genuine contribution to the national discourse.
Snowden - and Bradley Manning before him, and Daniel Ellsberg long before them - has confirmed the obvious - secrets have a shelf life. Better, then, to work on ways to share them and save all this embarrassment.
Clearly, the sharing can be awkward - publicity means debate. For example, how does Washington's bleating about cyber attacks from abroad sit with Snowden's disclosures on Washington having mounted 231 offensive cyber operations in 2011 - acts of espionage and war?
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