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Quotes About Official Secrets Act

I was arrested on suspicion of breach of Official Secrets Act in March 2003, but they didn't charge me until November. Now, the in-between months, I was bailed and re-bailed, and my life was on standstill. I was in limbo. It was a difficult time for me and my family, because we just did not know what the future held for us.
~ Katharine Gun
Mr Wooster, you will have heard of the Official Secrets Act…?' 'Er–no.' 'Really?' He had evidently assumed his question to be rhetorical, and was fairly startled by my lacuna. 'Just goes to prove how effective it is, what?
~ Ben Schott
The Official Secrets Act 1989 may need reforming for the digital era, but I would argue that at its heart there should be protection for whistleblowers.
~ Katharine Gun
One of the great things about the Fifties is there are so many secrets - people who've come back from the war and done these terrible things that they don't want to think about, or can't say what they did because they signed the Official Secrets Act.
~ Sara Sheridan
Twas the night before Christmas, the office was closed, The transom was shut, the staff home in repose; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, But St. Nicholas won't be coming because this is a Designated National Security Site within the meaning of Para 4.12 of Section 3 of the Official Secrets Act (Amended) and unauthorised intrusion on such a site is an arrestable offense ...
~ Charles Stross
We don't have an Official Secrets Act in the United States, as other countries do. Under the First Amendment, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and freedom of association are more important than protecting secrets.
~ Alan Dershowitz
We can reveal that John's 85 That's a well known fact Telling Kathy's age would be a breach Of the Official Secrets Act
~ John Walter Bratton