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35. So this is a no-brainer as far as you're concerned?

Sun Jun 23, 2013, 07:44 PM

Jun 2013

No matter what someone with top secret clearance witnesses, under no circumstances may s/he divulge that information without committing treason? I've been wondering about this. I mean, you're right, the law is pretty clear that he was no permitted to disclose the information he disclosed. At the same time, if you have, without your consent, been made party to events that, in your heart of hearts, you reasonably believe to be illegal, do you not have some obligation to disclose them? I mean, say you witness US soldiers torturing and murdering some Iraqi civilian. Which duty is the higher one, the duty to not disclose classified information, or the duty to do something about the horrible crime you've just witnessed?

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