Contemporary democratic states have to be transparent and open to society, yet their national security systems need to operate based on a certain level of secrecy. The purpose of this text is to analyse the conceptual aspects of the relationship between secrecy and transparency in the field of national security and to study two key cases (WikiLeaks and Snowden) that reflect this relationship well. The paper confirms the argument that the principles of transparency and secrecy are very important in a democratic state, although when there is a need for prioritisation the principle of transparency should prevail.
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