<p>Keywords: Secrets, Surveillance, Political Rhetoric, Materiality, US Government. is an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Communication Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. His new book, <em>Sovereign, Settler, Leaker, Lie: Forms of the Secret in US Political Rhetoric,</em> is available now from The Ohio State University Press.<em> </em>For more information visit thebigrhetoricalpodcast. weebly.com and follow @thebigrhet.</p>