For his own vindictive purposes, Jeffrey Sterling carelessly disclosed extremely valuable, highly classified information that he had taken an oath to keep secret.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Although we did not find clear evidence that Secretary Clinton or her colleagues intended to violate laws governing the handling of classified information, there is evidence that they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.
The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
Usually you kind of give the President a pass on leaking confidential stuff.
A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government.
What Edward Snowden did amounted to the greatest hemorrhaging of legitimate American secrets in the history of my nation.
A man is entitled to a few secrets.
In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.
The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oath, whether he did it willfully. I think that's required of any prosecutor who is charged with an investigation of this.
Confidentiality is a virtue of the loyal, as loyalty is the virtue of faithfulness.
No one ever confides a secret to one person only. No one destroys all copies of a document.