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Offers in-depth analysis of seventy-five documents. Readers will find speeches, memos, letters, reports, transcripts, minutes, and testimony related to some of the nation's most notorious scandals including Benedict Arnold's letters to Major John André, the House that Tweed Built, impeachment proceedings against two presidents, the Teapot Dome Scandal, The Zimmerman Telegram, the Vietnam War, Watergate and Whitewater, reports from commissions that investigated the assassination of President Kennedy and 9-11, transcripts of trials, e-mails that document the Flint, Michigan, water crisis, the unmasking of Valerie Plame, minutes from a meeting just before the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, the Manning-Lamo chat logs that detail how Manning leaked classified materials to Wikileaks, and e-mails hacked from John Podesta's Gmail account demonstrating that Hillary Clinton was the beneficiary of a political favor during the 2016 primaries

"Experts often disagree about how much and what kind of intelligence should be considered classified. In addition, there can be benefits to leaking intelligence, a practice that is done by insiders with some regularity. Do citizens have a right to know about all government activities, or is security of higher value? What happens when leaks affect the safety of journalists and diplomats around the world? Who decides when a leaker is a "whistleblower" or a "traitor"? Readers of this captivating volume will learn about the issue from a diverse array of viewpoints"--