Some miscellaneous historical thoughts on comparing the Oppenheimer affair to the Brennan affair, as someone who just finished writing half a chapter about the Oppenheimer affair for his (forthcoming!!) book on the history of nuclear secrecy in the USA:
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I only write these things because I've seen some historians assert historical parallels. I think it's kind of a weak comparison, in the sense that the Oppenheimer affair was pretty complex, and the Brennan affair seems to be "merely" a form of ugly politics.
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The Oppenheimer affair, for all of its injustice, was not merely an attempt to silence a critic, or cut him off from potential income. The Brennan affair looks *only* like that, at least from my vantage point. FIN.
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