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robert scheer - "Praise the Whistleblower-Privacy, Freedom and the Surveillance State"
Scheer's recent response to the US PTB stance on "traitors." He offers a history going back to the Nuremberg Trials, to the 1950's and 1960's, heightened cold war on communism, now being replaced by the War on Terror. Especially interesting is his assessment that Daniel Ellsberg was much more of security threat, in his release of the Pentagon Papers, than Bradley Manning:
http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/robert_scheer_praise_the_whistle-blower_20130624/