We investigate in secret so that we don't smear innocent people.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.
The reason nobody investigates the men who are trading off our freedoms for private enrichment is that they are the very ones who are doing the investigating.
If we are not careful, we will convey the message that investigators have to be perfect. Not true!
We need to make sure that leaks of classified information, of national security secrets, needs to be rigorously pursued and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Not all things are to be discovered; many are better concealed.
Where there is mystery, it is generally suspected there must also be evil.
Sometimes we have to take measures to protect the innocent that we do not like. Severe interrogations are sometimes part of doing that.
Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.
From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.
We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.