Punishing whistleblowers: where does it end?

NIALL GINTY (Letters, January 23) accuses me of “dressing up” the facts in relation to leaks of confidential information.

My intervention was intended to broaden the debate from the specific issue to the general principles of who has a right to know what.

Should powerful politicians be allowed to control all the information and to exclude the rest of us from knowing the bits that are inconvenient to themselves?