I am going to agree with you in principle, and I have my own ideas about that, but I think you are talking two different things.
First there is the political leak, ala President Obama, or Bush II (yellowcake) or any of the previous administrations back at least to Reagan. That is one discussion that I think is separate from your main point.
The second is the individual who feels that it is part and parcel to being in a liberal society that everything they know is interesting dinner conversation. Granted, our DoD probably over-classifies information which creates the impression that "Secret- No Forn" really doesn't mean "don't talk about this". Your average SSG who receives an order one day marked "Secret No Forn", and sees a two-star briefing the press about it the next, sometimes makes it hard to take these classifications seriously. But I do believe that along with the changes that come with a liberal society and the idea of governmental transparency there is a feeling that secrets aren't really meant to be secret.
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