Matt Taibbi: As Bradley Manning Trial Begins, Press Predictably Misses the Point
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Tuesday, June 11, 2013
13-06-11 If you can be punished for making public a crime, then the government doing the punishing is itself criminal.
June 10, 2013
Well, the Bradley Manning trial has begun, and for the most part, the government couldn't have scripted the headlines any better. This whole thing, this trial, it all comes down to one simple equation. If you can be punished for making public a crime, then the government doing the punishing is itself criminal. Manning, by whatever means, stumbled into a massive archive of evidence of state-sponsored murder and torture, and for whatever reason, he released it. The debate we should be having is over whether as a people we approve of the acts he uncovered that were being done in our names.
13-06-11 Lee Camp: The Truth About Whistleblowers Snowden and Manning
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This is your Moment of Clarity #241: As the trial of Bradley Manning continues, Edward Snowden comes out as the NSA whistleblower who revealed the secret massive surveillance state.
Keep fighting,
Lee
Tags: #OWS, activist, author,
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And the not surprising responses:
Sen. Feinstein calls Snowden's NSA leaks an 'act of treason'
- 06/10/13 06:19 PM ET
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) on Monday said the 29-year-old man who leaked information about two national security programs is guilty of treason.
Feinstein said that she doesn’t see National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden as a hero or a whistle blower.
Posted: 10 Jun 2013 10:00 AM PDT
H/T David Edwards
Fox News strategic analyst Ralph Peters on Monday said that Edward Snowden, the man behind the biggest leak in the history of the National Security Agency (NSA) deserves to be executed for his crimes.
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