There is much in the news, and in Facebook by Toobin and others, about Manning and Snowden. Now Manning has been sent away for 35 years for leaking secrets that were better off leaked. Secrets that should never have been secret at all--all those diplomatic cables for instance. Mostly he seems to have exposed procedures employed by government operatives, which procedures don't bear the light of day, or scurrilous comments by same which should never have been written down and which became important only because they were classified as secret. Government workers seem to think everything they do or think or say is vital and should be hush-hush, and most journalists think nothing should be. Guess which way my feelings lie. I sympathize with Manning--a great many murderers don't get 35 years--and also with Snowden when his time comes. Our very democracy depends on people coming forward to journalists with "secrets" committed in the public's name which the public has a right to know. Show me concrete harm those guys and others have done before you impose silence on them and on us.
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