"The oil futures trade alone was worth about $580 million, the Financial Times estimated. As Krugman notes, exploiting confidential information for financial gain, otherwise known as 'insider trading,' is illegal. But exploiting confidential information about national security for private financial gain is something else again. It puts profit-making above Americans’ safety."
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