I’m no sooner spoken than broken. What am I?
A promise not to disclose the existence of a secret? For example, if Jay Rockefeller says he can’t talk about what he knows about NSA wiretapping because it is classified, but he thinks it is illegal, has he violated his promise of secrecy?
Professor Turley has brilliantly positioned things re NSA wiretapping by arguing “The USG knew my client was such a bad dude that they must have been wiretapping him when he was making plans with Bin Laden’s sheik at 11 a.m. on September 16 and then again on September 19, 2001.”
A secret. The existence of a secret.
What's your point?
There are few real secrets in the Amerithrax investigation.
Most of the information about the case is available. People just have different ways of interpreting that information. So, it's all endlessly debated. What's NOT available are definitive answers to specific questions, and that's because the questions generally relate to evidence in an ongoing murder investigation.
Should the government name the 12 to 20 "persons of interest" they've said they are investigating? Why? So they can be tried in the media? So we can argue over who did it?
What's happening in the Hatfill v FBI lawsuit may be out of the public eye right now, but that doesn't mean anything sinister is going on. NO pre-trial discussions are ever done in public.
So, what's your point?