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Lord Blair Calls for Laws To Stop 'Principled' Leaking of State Secrets
An anonymous reader writes with an excerpt from the Guardian: "Tougher laws are needed to prevent members of the public from revealing official secrets, former Metropolitan police commissioner Lord Blair has said. ... The peer insisted there was material the state had to keep secret, and powers had to be in place to protect it. The intervention comes after police seized what they said were thousands of classified documents from David Miranda – the partner of Guardian journalist Glenn Greenwald, who has been reporting leaks from the former US intelligence officer Edward Snowden. ... He warned there was a 'new threat which is not of somebody personally intending to aid terrorism, but of conduct which is likely to or capable of facilitating terrorism.' He cited the examples of information leaks related to Manning and WikiLeaks."
I would expect that the patrol routes for nuclear missile submarines might be considered something to keep quiet, along with encryption keys. Maybe one or two other things as well.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
Next /. poll:
Who are you most afraid of?
-Terrorists
-My government
-The voices in my head
-CowboyNeal
In essence that would be a self-negating poll. Many of the same people that would claim to be terrified of their government also cheer socialized medicine. Cognitive dissonance.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
Terrorists try changes after Snowden leaks, official says
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell