Saturday, November 03, 2012

[gctlzryz] Transparency through leaks

Increase transparency in government by eliminating penalties for publicly divulging government information, including classified information.

Key is publicly divulging, which distinguishes it from espionage. Operationally, it is different from espionage because for the latter, there is uncertainty whether the enemy knows the information: the same principle as tamper-evident (as opposed to unpickable) locks and safes.

Government transparency is not something that the government can be expected to do well on its own because of too many powerful agents within who would like to keep secrets.  There must be an adversarial component.  (Previously, FOIA.)

In other words, increase whistleblower protections.

Bradley Manning would be a free man.

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