From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Brooke Gladstone.

And I'm Bob Garfield. Another week, another episode in Compromised Government Secrets.

The latest development, a new cache of WikiLeaks, leaks, this one naming names.

We'll get to that in a minute. But first, we'll address the general question of the government's classification

conundrum. The widening river of leaks has left authorities with a puzzle. Once a secret has been

revealed, should the government still try to keep it under wraps? Case in point, a memoir by a former

FBI agent named Ali Sufhan.

As a government employee who held a security clearance,

Sufant is required to have his book vetted by a variety of government agencies,

anyone whose secrets could be spilled in the book.

And in fact, Sufant's employer, the FBI, has cleared the book.

But the CIA insisted that certain classified information in the book be redacted, even though those former secrets are now widely known.

The New York Times, Scott Shane, reported on this situation recently. Shane says Sufant has his

own explanation for why the CIA wants to redact his book.

Mr. Sufan believes that because his book is quite critical of CIA, that they are trying to

interfere with his right to tell the story of both the back and forth between CIA and FBI

before 9-11 and the question of

whether 9-11 perhaps could have been prevented. And secondly, the story of what the CIA called

enhanced interrogation, what others called torture, the program involving waterboarding and so on,

which Sufant is highly critical of. So what does the CIA want to suppress?

For example, a sentence from Mr. Suvon's public Senate testimony, which is easily found on the

web, is being excised by the CIA. It's well known that Mr. Sufant was one of the first interrogators of a guy named Abu Zubeda.

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