"Anything that is out in the open is fair game for collection, " said Steven Aftergood, of the Federation of American Scientists.

“任何公开的东西都是搜集的对象。” 美国科学家联合会史蒂芬·阿福特古德说。

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When Assange was looking for board members, he contacted Steven Aftergood, who runs an e-mail newsletter for the Federation of American Scientists, and who publishes sensitive documents.

NEWYORKER: No Secrets

The sad thing about this is, As Steven Aftergood of the Project on Government Secrecy writes, there has never been anything like an impenetrable wall between information deemed secret and the public.

FORBES: The Government's Not-Secret Secrets