I really don't think the government could care less about the zanies. They're far more concerned, IMHO, that the release of information one way or the other might confirm/deny certain things our enemies simply have no business knowing.

Good assessment. Just because someone wants to know something, it doesn't mean they have a need to know. There's no way to reveal something sensitive to the population at large without everyone else finding out about it, too.

My work requires me to work with classified information, some of it secured at very high levels. Just because I have the clearances, it doesn't mean I have the need to know everything that is classified at those levels. I have access to the info I need to do my job and nothing more.