Frank Snepp

“They're trying to shut me up. And I don't think they will.”

“The agency essentially destroyed me professionally for 20 years.”

“I'm not an advocate of leaks. I'm an advocate of responsible disclosure.”

“The CIA has now become the world's most powerful publisher because it can enjoin publication on national security grounds.”

“The C.I.A. has a horror of embarrassing friendly governments.”

“What happened in Saigon was a moral failure of the first order.”

“My book was not about secrets; it was about the misuse of intelligence.”

“The Supreme Court decision in my case was a devastating blow to the First Amendment.”

“The government has a right to protect its secrets. But it doesn't have a right to suppress the truth.”

“I felt a moral obligation to tell the story of what I saw.”

“There's no question that the C.I.A. has been damaged tremendously by the leaks.”