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From: tedrick@ernie.berkeley.edu (Tom Tedrick)
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Subject: Re: British Institutions of Government: Powers of the Sovereign?
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>The "need to know" doctrine is based on the idea that no one is completely
>reliable, and therefore the fewer people who have access to information,
>the better.  

Also, in case an individual is captured by an enemy, he has less
damaging information to reveal.