Thread:Comments:Wikileaks to release thousands of secret documents; 'international embarrassment' likely/HA!/reply (3)

National security is often overplayed for its own sake. For example, one (now rather long ago) attempted bombing trial in Scotland involved evidence from the man who defused the device. 'No' he says (paraphrased; I have no idea what the exact quotes of the conversation are) 'I can't possibly tell you publicly how I defused it'. 'Would it have anything to do' the defence asks, pointing to a public-record-diagram-thingy of the bomb 'with a pair of pliers, and cutting that wire there?'

'Er, yes' a rather embarrassed bomb disposer admits. 'Yes, it would'.