1. A man was charged today with leaking official secrets. 2. Full scale reform of official secrets legislation is still very much a topic of current debate. 3. The crime is to disclose an official secret, probably even if extracted from the accused at the point of a pistol. 4. The scientists have used a model to test the technology, which was an official secret until recently. 5. It had few civil servants and therefore few official secrets. 6. A congressional commission has done just that in a thoughtful new report that recommends a long-overdue change in the way official secrets are made and maintained. 7. But by treating these legitimate public concerns as if they were official secrets, the Navy complicates the challenge of mollifying an understandably aggrieved Japan. 8. Federal prosecutors prefer not to try espionage cases, since by definition they entail the public presentation of official secrets. 9. Official secrets acts are a European tradition, West as well as East. 10. When racial profiling was still an official state secret, the turnpike was its prime hiding place. |