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    America Abroad: Document leaks and the consequences of revealing secrets

    When is leaking documents and revealing secrets worth the potential security risks? This hour, we'll talk about when document leaks are legal, when they are morally justified, and when they aren't — how, at times, they've put lives in danger.

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    Feb 19, 2018 • 1 min read

    When is leaking documents and revealing secrets worth the potential security risks? This hour, we'll talk about when document leaks are legal, when they are morally justified, and when they aren't — how, at times, they've put lives in danger.

    • Gen. Michael Hayden - former director of the CIA and NSA

    • Jameel Jaffer - executive director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University

    • RB Brenner - director of the journalism school at the University of Texas, Austin

    • Heather Conley - director of the Europe Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies

    • Hardy Merriman - president of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict.

    • Juan Zarate - former deputy national security advisor under President George W. Bush

    • Will Fitzgibbon - reporter at the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists

    • Christopher Ahlberg - co-founder of Recorded Future Threat Intelligence

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