Is it just me, or is there a rising flood of highly classified political vomit oozing about our ankles, lapping at our knees and spreading over the entire public discourse to the extent that no idea or even simple statement of fact can be recognized for what it is once it enters the tarpit of secrecy?
Yes, dear reader, I've been watching C-Span again - the Gonzalez/NSA affair, and so I refer of course, to the secrets upon secrets that are only as secret as we need them to be and only when we need them to be secret. Because if the actual content of the secret gets us in less trouble than not keeping the secret secret, then suddenly it's not a secret anymore, or at least not as much of a secret. In which case, even a super secret can become a non-secret as long as my name is kept secret.
