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How is it a national security leak? Bad certainly but wolf has been cried so many times around "national security" that replacing it with "because reasons" or similiar would cause no loss of meaning.

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It seems the concern is that if a foreign power is suspicious that someone might be a spy, they can collect their DNA and run it against this database. If the spy's relatives are in the database, they will be flagged, and likely make it easy to deduce the true identity of the spy. This could then leave the spy in a compromised situation.

>wolf has been cried so many times

I'm not sure this is the analogy you want to use. The wolf ended up eating the boy in the end of that story, didn't it?

So that's exactly the analogy they wanted to use. The point is that "national security threats" can be a serious danger, but if you claim something small is a "national security threat" too many times then it starts to lose its meaning and urgency.

What if the threats are all very real but human nature is to grow fatigued by warnings and become ever more complacent even when the wolf is at the door?

cf. climate change.

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