I agree. Originally the press was supposed to be part of the checks and balances. Honest reporting was to keep government from getting out of hand. We all know how that has worked out, with the press protecting government corruption. There is no way we can know the whole truth of who is behind all this and what the purposes are, but we have to ask ourselves, in the long run isn’t it better that evil and incompetence are revealed? It isn’t only US secrets that have been told.
In my mind - secrets to protect troop placemens and whereabouts and confidential names of CIA agents etc etc, fine keep those secrets.
Secrets to conceal lies, hypocrisy, theft, graft, etc -sorry - I am happy with all the exposure and leaks.
Excellent observations and logic.
"I would like to call upon America to be more careful with its trust to prevent those pundits who are attempting to establish fine degrees of justice and even finer legal shades of equality (some because of their distorted outlook, others because of short-sightedness, still others out of self-interest)to prevent them from using the struggle for peace and social justice to lead you down a false road.They are trying to weaken you; they are trying to disarm your strong and magnificent country in the face of this fearful threat -- one which has never before been seen in the history or the world. Not only in the history of the country, but in the history of the world."