Everybody is continuously connected to everybody else on Twitter, on Facebook, on Instagram, on Reddit, e-mailing, texting, faster and faster, with the flood of information jeopardizing meaning.
Republicans accused the administration of deliberately leaking classified information, jeopardizing national security in an effort to make Mr. Obama look tough in an election year — a charge the White House rejected.
Rear Admiral B. A. Harlow, Acting Judge Advocate General, in denying my appeal for access to the Navy's Pearl Buck documents, informed me, "Even after the passage of 34 years, release of the withheld information would jeopardize the Government's interest in preventing the unwarranted invasion of personal privacy of an individual about whom the Government maintains information in its files".
The government says the release of this classified information could jeopardize its intelligence-gathering activities.
They said they feared that such information could jeopardize the scientist's safety by identifying the part of the weapons program where he worked.
Governments might balk if major oil and natural gas companies vying for new contracts in places like Libya insisted that sharing such information would jeopardize their negotiations.
The White House declined to release any additional details about the operation, saying that further information would jeopardize the military's ability to conduct clandestine operations in the future.
The New York Times agreed to withhold locations and details of these operations at the request of Obama administration officials, who said that disclosing such information could jeopardize future sensitive government activities and put at risk American personnel working in dangerous settings.
The police said that they could not provide evidence because the investigation into Mr. Lefevre's death was ongoing, and that the release of information could jeopardize any fair adjudication of the matter, according to the lawsuit.
It's a convention that originates in the world of international policy-making (Chatham House is the headquarters of the Royal Institute of International Affairs, in London), and it is designed to facilitate the flow of opinions and information without jeopardizing the work or well-being of the diplomats who express the opinions or share the information.
