Intelligence chiefs have always maintained that disclosing their tactics is a gift to terrorists, Rusbridger pointed out.
Database Hackers Disclose Tactics In March, unknown intruders broke into the computer systems of database giant LexisNexis, gaining access to the Social Security numbers and personal data of hundreds of thousands of people.
agent, John Dodson, who helped disclose risky tactics used in the case.
Bristol-Myers Squibb lost $1.04, to $22.11, after saying it was under investigation by regulators, months after it disclosed sales tactics that inflated revenue late last year by $1 billion.
He has been using Facebook to publish detailed allegations of corruption and violence, including the supposed perpetrators' names and phone numbers and disclosing dishonest election tactics.
Mr. Hurd's cash-out on Aug. 25, before the company disclosed the spying tactics in a Sept. 6 regulatory filing, did not appear to be part of a scheduled program of transactions, the panel's ranking members, Representatives John D. Dingell and Bart Stupak, said in a letter to Mr. Hurd.
Mr. Eichenwald's memo on Romenesko raised another serious ethical question: Had Times editors resisted disclosing in the Reporter's Essay the tactics used in reporting the original article?
Freddie Mac, one of the nation's largest buyers of home loans, announced a fresh wave of bad news Wednesday, disclosing losses that were smaller than expected only because of accounting tactics that minimized the effects of bad loans.
A similar tactic was used two years ago by a Labour MP to reveal that the media had been banned from disclosing the details of a report into the dumping of toxic waste in the Ivory Coast by the oil trading firm Trafigura.
Smear tactics and cynically spun counter-narratives are also of course the bread and butter of murky interest groups seeking to manipulate public opinion without disclosing their actual agenda (and funders).
