What follows is his description of events after A.M. Rosenthal, The Times's editor in 1971, had told him about this mass of secret documents that he wished to put in the paper — if the publisher approved, of course, for the buck stopped with him.
Whatever terminology you choose, the details of dozens of their specific operations -- and how they regularly went badly wrong -- have been revealed for the first time in the mass of secret U.S. military and intelligence documents published by the website Wikileaks in July to a storm of news coverage and official protest.
His reputation has taken a deep plunge since he shook the world in 2010 by releasing, in cooperation with The New York Times and several other news organizations, masses of secret government documents, including battlefield reports from Iraq and Afghanistan.
The end of the Cold War unleashed a mass of unemployed secret agents on the business world, just as executives were growing especially anxious about foreign competition.
Senators Charles E. Schumer and Dianne Feinstein, Democrats of New York and California, are drafting an amendment to make clear that the bill's protections extend only to traditional news-gathering activities and not to Web sites that serve as a conduit for the mass dissemination of secret documents.
Old-fashioned Freudians believe that we have masses of juicy secrets locked up inside us, unacknowledged by our well-ordered rational consciousness and clamouring to be set free.
Dr. Lee is charged with having illegally downloaded a huge mass of nuclear weapons secrets to an unsecure computer at Los Alamos, and then putting the information on 10 computer tapes, seven of which are missing.
Australia's Indigenous people see the earth as a living, breathing mass that is full of secrets and wisdom.
As war got closer, new characters walked on to the set, including Richard Dearlove, head of MI6, portrayed exquisitely in my play by Michael Simkins, as a bully of a man, who relished his private face-time with Blair, a chance to tell the prime minister what the prime minister wanted to hear – the weapons of mass destruction secrets, "the crown jewels".
Think of mass surveillance, of drones, secret courts, the militarisation of the police, detention without trial.
Spooks in general have had a lot to answer for in the past decade and a half: the 9/11 attacks themselves, Iraq's nonexistent weapons of mass destruction, secret prisons, torture, warrantless eavesdropping, the bulk collection of Americans' data, and targeted killings.
