Rational Security: The "There's Classified and then There's Classified Classified" Edition

Benjamin Wittes
Thursday, April 14, 2016, 7:07 AM

A Navy officer is accused of spying, possibly for Taiwan and China. President Obama wades into the debate over how much government information should be classified. And a family in Kansas is trapped in a special kind of Internet hell. Plus, Shane is reading a new book on missing CIA contractor Robert Levinson.

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A Navy officer is accused of spying, possibly for Taiwan and China. President Obama wades into the debate over how much government information should be classified. And a family in Kansas is trapped in a special kind of Internet hell. Plus, Shane is reading a new book on missing CIA contractor Robert Levinson. Ben has some advice for the New York Times editorial board. Susan has a neat trick for knowing what side you’re on. And Shane's audio doppelgangaer shows up to say "hello."


Benjamin Wittes is editor in chief of Lawfare and a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of several books.

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