{"id":180360,"date":"2017-05-11T19:06:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T00:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/05\/11\/wisdom-of-the-day-2\/"},"modified":"2017-05-11T19:06:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T00:06:00","slug":"wisdom-of-the-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/05\/11\/wisdom-of-the-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisdom of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignaffairs.com\/articles\/united-states\/2013-10-15\/end-hypocrisy\">discussion of the nature of leaks and leakers<\/a>, a point is made that is not often made:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The deeper threat that leakers such as Manning and Snowden pose is more subtle than a direct assault on U.S. national security: they undermine Washington\u2019s ability to act hypocritically and get away with it.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is the truth not only of whistle-blowers, but many of our secrets:&nbsp; It is about protecting us from the consequences of our own hypocrisy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a discussion of the nature of leaks and leakers, a point is made that is not often made: The deeper threat that leakers such as Manning and Snowden pose is more subtle than a direct assault on U.S. national security: they undermine Washington\u2019s ability to act hypocritically and get away with it. This is &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[464,387,501],"class_list":["post-180360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-good-writing","tag-hypocrisy","tag-secrecy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180360"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}