Quotes About Disclosure

Great weight should be given to the judgment of professionals on what information, if disclosed, would harm national security.

We try and be as open as we can, and to protect the secrets that we must protect.

There is not adequate whistleblower protection.

Whistleblowers deserve protection, but employees are not federal agents.

I am protective of my own personal life, but I must confess that I enjoy watching people that don't mind telling it all.

I will exercise patience and will provide all facts to the general public.

never do anything like this without telling me

My Life in CIA is the first time that I've ever written a story in my own name.

I don't think journalists should talk about whom they're voting for.

There are many people, including me, who admire the original mission of WikiLeaks.

The work of WikiLeaks is with principal documentary evidence; that's where the truth lies. It gets to the heart of the matter. It educates people and in turn empowers them.

Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, has on several occasions talked about transparency as an absolute principle. I don't personally believe that.

Democratic societies need a strong media, and WikiLeaks is part of that media.

People intrinsically know there are secrets being held from us. Look at WikiLeaks: There are secrets that are really true to the world.

I don't see anything that's come out on WikiLeaks that was a legitimate secret.

If Wikileaks didn't resolve that question for folks - at the end of the day, there are no secrets. We're living in a glass neighborhood, in a fishbowl, and technology, white hat hackers, the folks that are doing the right thing with hacking.

One of the differences between what happens when an author and a gossip columnist sit down to write a book is that the former tends to make every effort at disguising and protecting their sources, while the latter doesn't particularly care.

Secrecy involves a tension which, at the moment of revelation, finds its release.

I'm really honestly terrified about how much I should tell and how much I should still keep secret.

The notion of getting under the hood and explaining how something works, that's fairly familiar territory to me.

Are you saying that the assistant had the answers all along, he just wasn't telling anyone?

I thought about how there are two types of secrets: the kind you want to keep in, and the kind you don't dare to let out.

It is wise to disclose what cannot be concealed.

I don't have secrets in my life. Everything is out there.