And why exactly couldn’t we be told that North Korea was going to be doing nuclear tests? What was the big secret?
I don’t say we couldn’t be, I haven’t considered the matter and its ramifications in detail. That wasn’t the point I was focussing on. But surely if we could, and I don’t yet say one way or the other, leaking to a news organisation isn’t the way to do it. But again, that’s not the point under discussion. The point is the selective, the very selective, punishment of a security leak.