OP-ED: Who does the Official Secrets Act serve?

If the government is truly on the public’s side, there should not be too many secrets to keep from journalists

By now, there has been a lot of discussion on the origin and nature of the Official Secret Act 1923. Without going into much detail, we may safely conclude that this was promulgated by our colonial masters more than a century ago with a view to protecting secret official information from going over to their adversary.