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Ken Klippenstein

Simply put, classification doesn’t apply to anyone outside the government — not legally it doesn’t. That the press thinks it does says a lot about who they think they work for and the extent to which the U.S. government has become a shadow editor for national security reporting.

Whenever journalism inserts itself as a middleman and prioritizes the supposed national security interest above the public interest, the press is basically saying it doesn’t work for the public.