
According to the Pentagon, about 500,000 people have clearance to use the database from which the secret cables were pilfered.

According to the Pentagon, about 500,000 people have clearance to use the database from which the secret cables were pilfered.

A free press in a democracy can be messy. But the alternative is to give the government a veto over what its citizens are allowed to know.

As long as you made a point of hanging out exclusively with people who had the wit to see and to understand that objective reality, you didn’t have to waste a lot of time talking. When a thunderstorm was headed your way across the prairie, you took the washing down from the line and closed the windows. It wasn’t necessary to have a meeting about it. The sales force didn’t need to get involved.