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Anyone who studies declassified documents soon becomes aware that government secrecy is largely an effort to protect policy makers from scrutiny by citizens, not…

— Noam Chomsky

I've spent a lot of time working on declassified documents - and they do get declassified after decades - you look at the record…

— Noam Chomsky

Long before the technology revolution there was declassification of documents and I've spent quite a lot of time studying declassified internal documents and written…

— Noam Chomsky

I'll turn the page on a growing empire of classified information. We'll protect sources and methods, but we won't use sources and methods to…

— Barack Obama

When you're dealing with espionage and covert affairs, sometimes the secret is more exciting than the knowledge.

— Jeffrey Donovan

With news, especially investigative pieces, you've got to be really smart and really lucky to be timely and to not get beaten by the…

— Bill Kurtis

You've got the NSA doing all this collecting of material on all of its citizens - that's what the SS, the Gestapo, the Stasi,…

— William Binney

I didn't appreciate how special and sometimes strange my CIA world was - until it suddenly and spectacularly ended in a newspaper column.

— Valerie Plame

Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.

— John le Carre

I spent close to a decade as an undercover officer in the CIA and have spent most of my adult life collecting intelligence and…

— Will Hurd

“Expecting the US government to operate a massive surveillance machine in complete secrecy without falling prey to its temptations runs counter to every historical…

— Glenn Greenwald

I’ve been an investigative reporter for a long time, and almost always, the government says that [‘you can’t publish that because of the national…

— James Risen