Stopping leaks is a new form of censorship.

Opponents past and present have the same essential weakness about them: first they want to use you, then they want to be you, then they want to snuff you out.

If her soul ever leaks, I want it to land on me.

These programs were never about terrorism: they’re about economic spying, social control, and diplomatic manipulation. They’re about power.

It is hard to imagine having a government more secretive than the United States. Virtually everything that government does, of any significance, is conducted behind an extreme wall of secrecy. The very few leaks that...