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I suspect because 99% of the media is nothing but government propoganda.
Wikileaks shpwed us how the DNC rigged the primaries against Bernie Sanders. We saw that Donna Brazille gave Hillary Clinton debate questions in advance. We learned about drone strikes in Yemen. We learned about what the Chinese were doing to Tibet. We learned about executions by Kenyan police. We learned about the US government lies about the Iraqi war. We learned about the lies from the US government about Afghanistan and Gitmo.
Snowden alerted the world of Prism...The NSA spying on every single American, through their google and yahoo accounts, and much much more.
These men are heros. They uncovered corruption and totalitarianism activity and we are all better off knowing the truth!
I learned about all these news items through my normal media channels ... and long before they were reported on Wikileaks ... you folks might want to considered expanding your exposure some ... definitely get some business news sources ... what happens in Yemen effects oil ... and what happens to oil effects the largest corporations in the world ... the stuff of NBR ...
I'm going to set aside Julian Assange ... when he
innocently receives sensitive information and posts it to the internet, well, that's not illegal in the USA ... remember the Pentagon Papers? ... I do get the feeling that these current round of criminal charges are just "Trumped" up and is yet another sign of US Federal government over-reach ... a better example is the Hammond's plight which spurred the Malheur Wildlife Refuge crisis ... and another GREAT example is the Bundy trials in both Oregon and Nevada ... I don't agree with the Hammonds or the Bundys, but how our government officials treated them was nothing short of a horrific abuse of power ... c'mon OP, atrocities against US Citizens ain't part of your rant? ... shame on you ...
Swowden is a traitor ... are you people too stupid to know the NSA activities were demanded by the
Patriot Act of 2003? ... Snowden relieved nothing to the public that wasn't already known, just read the damn law that says this is happening ... he grabbed that top secret hard drive and ran straight to the Commie Chinese government, this is your hero? ... okay comrade, believe that if you wish, but don't worry, Snowden is living a life of luxury there in Russia ... where all ***** US traitors go for comfort ...
The OP doesn't include
Chelsea Manning? ... that link has a great side-boob photo of her ... she's of age so it's okay to ogle ... the information she provided Wikileaks was new, and damaging to the entrenched bureaucracy in Foggy Bottom ... more horrors of just how nasty our own Federal government is ... I think she's a traitor but she's no coward ... she faced the nation at trial and stood firm ... no yellow-belly running away and hiding in our enemies' loving embrace ... dare I speculate as to why the OP ignores her? ...
I was a cryptographer at Command HQ ... I had full access to all the top secret messages from the Air Force Chief of Staff ... I
hated what we were doing, could see with my own eyes the terrible policies imposed on the locals ... all these people wanted was the right to own their home, maybe a small plot of land ... to be free of the US military's imposition of thralldom on them on behalf of United Fruit Company ... all the profits to Wall Street, none to the workers toiling in the plantations ... I know exactly how Snowden and Manning felt, what they thought ... I felt and thought the same things ... I did indeed "walk many miles in their shoes" ...
The difference? ...
I'm a patriot ... and I did my duty to the best of my abilities
as I swore to Our Nation that I would ... Snowden and Manning violated their oaths ... sold out Our Nation to our enemies ... read through Major North's testimony to Congress if you honestly want to know where Iranian terrorists got their weapons ... these are your heroes? ... then you condemn the loyal servicemen and women, those of us who kept our oath ...