For our intelligence services to operate effectively, and to protect us from these threats, they need to be able to do things in secret, secrets whose public disclosure would be damaging to our National Interest.
为了使我们的情报机构有效运作，并保护我们免受这些威胁，他们需要能够秘密地做事情，秘密的公开披露将损害我们的国家利益。