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applying to government secrecy, to national security at all. We'd have nothing but handouts from
then on, and we would have more wars based on lies like Iraq and the others, Vietnam, for that
matter, in my case, Pentagon Papers. So a great deal hangs on this. And finally, Jimmy, if I may
address your question you asked, why is the press staying aloof from this?
To my belief, the press has been a state of denial since my case, and that was 1971. That was
49 years ago. And I have been saying, I can tell you throughout that time to audiences of
journalists, some cases publishers, AP editors and whatnot, this is a buried bomb or a mine, in
fact, waiting for you. If you do not examine and investigate the secrecy system and the abuse of
it and the wrongness of the use of this law against this, it is going to be used directly against you
as well as to your sources.
They were surprisingly acquiescing to the notion of its being used against sources. Actually, the
legal aspects of that in my case were hardly ever examined or in the other cases which have
been going on under Obama, the very frail, the unconstitutionality of really what's being done.
And so they stayed aloof from it all. This will never touch us. We have an arrangement with the
government, we do our best to find secrets and they do their best to keep them. And it works out
pretty well for democracy.
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