Early in his career, Palmerston seemed to think that espionage would be rendered obsolete by the press: one might merely read another country's newspapers to learn whatever they were doing. They would be reporting important facts one needed to know.
When I said you don't need a security clearance, I did not mean that one could get a very clear view now of events, from the mainstream media alone, very far indeed from it.
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