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"'Everything leaks' – that’s just bullshit". Offered up years ago during an autumn walk on a Cape Cod beach, the remark stayed with me; it came from someone who knew a thing or two about secrets and the leaking of them.

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Before Daniel Ellsberg became famous for passing the Pentagon Papers to the press, proving the public had been misled about the Vietnam War, he enjoyed top-level clearances as a nuclear analyst at RAND and strategic consultant to the Pentagon. He knew how thick the layers of state secrecy ("Top Secret" was just the outer skin of the classification onion), severe the official penalties (he faced up to 115 years jail time under the Espionage Act of 1917) and deep the personal costs (family and friends became estranged).

https://www.smh.com.au/culture/books/edward-snowden-when-the-whistle-blows-20191009-p52z3q.html
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