He was speaking like a man letting Willie into a national secret.
If the men's team was somewhat of a national secret, the women must have felt invisible.
Another foreign researcher discovered that he was not allowed to take potatoes out of the country because they were considered national secrets.
Her husband works for the government and is in possession of national secrets.
Instead, each nation will have the right to take measures to protect national secrets from inspection teams.
So called national secrets need to be question for their intent as to who they protect.
"This is not national secrets he's revealing," the person said.
The answers are far from clear, and no one now can say how this legislation would better protect national secrets.
We can have open science with international collaboration while protecting our national secrets.
But this isn't some national secret that we're giving away.