Irish Examiner view: A secret shared

Pentagon leaks

Federal investigators have arrested a 21-year-old member of the intelligence wing of the Massachusetts Air National Guard who is linked to an online chat group where the leaked Pentagon documents first appeared Picture: WCVB-TV via AP

The old adage is that a secret shared is a secret lost. 

And whatever the provenance and impact of the mass dump of classified Pentagon documents — dismissed by US president Joe Biden on his Irish trip as being “not of great consequence” — there is at least one startling statistic that should give us all pause.