&gt; I&#x27;m hard-pressed to think of any good excuse for keeping a thing secret for twenty years.<p>How about technical papers on the manufacture of the hydrogen bomb? Or the name of cover agents who were active twenty years ago and either are still active, or at least alive and could be targeted in retaliation?<p>Don&#x27;t get me wrong, there needs to be a way for people to expose illegal or immoral actions of the organizations (government or not) they work for, while protecting them from retaliation. Wikileaks serves that function. But no secrets with a longer life than 20 years? ever? I don&#x27;t think I really agree.