Two Words

At first they won't tell you about it. And if someone else does, they'll label her a traitor and start monitoring the cell phone calls of anyone she might have talked to and anyone else who might be interested in the story. And when the story still spreads instead of going away, they will claim that whatever they did was fully within the law, except they won't tell you what that means. And when someone sues them in court, they'll claim Official Secrets, and the courts will roll over, because there's nothing you can do to enforce the laws when official secrets are claimed.

We have a word for this, two words, but if I said them I'd catch it for not appreciating what I have, which is more than anyone else anywhere else, and I'd catch it for not understanding the new reality, but that doesn't change the fact that the two words still apply when no one watches the watchers and the watchers are on a roll.

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