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Originally Posted by Seaver
We agree on something. Another question is why newspapers/television news publish secrets leaked by said operatives.
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Absolutely.
I think most people believe in freedom of speech, but not to the point that it compromises the state.
It is bizarre that a recently serving officer would be in the media talking about a current world event. I agree it should not be allowed to be published unless there is an utterly massive public interest argument, which goes through the courts first.
My grandfather was the Air Trafic Controller at a RAF/USAF base in the East of England in the 70's and 80's... which happened to have a (I think now believed to be a hoax) UFO incident at his station (RAF Woodbridge) and he would NEVER talk about something even as irrelevant as that no matter how much I bugged him when I was a kid. He just wouldnt talk about it as a matter of principle because everything was under the official secrets act and he took that seriously.