Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988.
NUMBER:
1006
AUTHOR:
Frank Trippett
QUOTATION:
Democratic government’s capacity for Byzantine deviousness is probably best told by that epochal best-teller, the Pentagon Papers—that “hemorrhage” of classified matter, as Henry Kissinger ruefully called it—which dramatized, in 47 volumes, just how far a government could go in clandestine and illicit duplicity.
ATTRIBUTION:
“The Public Life of Secrecy” Time 17 Jan 83
SUBJECTS:
The World: Politics & Government: Politicians & Critics
