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