I do not have a lot of sympathy for people who decide on their own to bypass those statutes.
I appreciate that that is a different question, though, and it is one that deserves examination.
We were talking on the way over about the need probably to replace terms like 'code books' with 'electronic information' and things of that ...
There needs to be a brighter line and a better transparency so that the official leak becomes the authorized official statement of unclassif...
Nobody should be leaking information. If the Secretary of State decides that it is a good thing to do, then I am all for it being done.
Those who become real spies should be prosecuted with the full might of the Government. Those who, without authority, leak to the media or o...
It seems to me, with that clarification--and I really appreciate that--that with that further requirement, it is hard to justify a good-moti...
Anonymity is Okay. No problem there.
I did comment publicly in May 2010 about a letter published by a senior officer that I believed inappropriate.
I understand your passion, but that's not, I think, frankly, in the tradition of America.
It has been alleged in the case of the Abacus----
But from the reading of these emails and the information that this Subcommittee has uncovered, there is no doubt their behavior was unethica...
Let us assume that the agency didn't know.
Well, a lot of these things are fairly complicated, Mr.
In other words, in a synthetic CDO, you don't really have any ownership. You are just betting on the fortunes of that CDO, is that correct?
Thank you for being here, Mr. Blankfein.
Should it have been disclosed?
I mean, you did get $10 billion of the taxpayers' money.