23.05.2013 - 00:06 [ The Atlantic ]

What ‚Stop the Leaks‘ Hardliners Don‘t Realize: They Can‘t and Won‘t Ever Win

What‘s unknown is exactly how the information will out, as it usually does, come 2015 or 2019 or 2022, when a bureaucrat with a conscience correctly discerns that, whatever the law might say, he has a moral and patriotic duty to make public his era‘s analog to the Abu Ghraib photos; or the revelation that lawbreaking national security officials spied on millions of innocent Americans without a warrant; or the fact that officially sanctioned torture was conducted.