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How many can share a secret? Or, to ask the same question in reverse, is there any secret that is absolutely secret? Even the briefest consideration of the problematic obscurely traced in such questions reveals the outline of a certain aporia. A secret, at least that which we commonly call a secret, is something that is not or should not be shared. Yet in fact secrets are always being shared. The idea of a so-called "state secret," whose history and contemporary resurgence in American law we will consider more specifically in a moment, obviously involves a secret that must be, in principle and in practice, both shared and concealed. Even the most expansive visions of executive sovereignty necessarily concede that such power must be delegated as it is exercised; and state secrets are thus inevitably shared, at least, by the "agents" of the "agencies" that carry out the policies of the state. At the same time, of course, a state secret is also rigorously concealed, not only from presumed enemies and aliens outside the state, but even from most of its own citizens. The very word "state" in this phrase seems to denote both |
