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3. The same thing happens if you win a big lottery or (say) save someone from kidnappers.

Thu Jun 27, 2013, 07:57 PM

Jun 2013

Your name is in the news and your past gets dug up and splashed all over the media.

Messrs. Greenwald & Snowden are not exempt from this phenomenon.

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Hastings was a journalist. A good and rare one. n/t Whisp Jun 2013 #1

You know, that is true in whatever hierarchy you are shaking up. Skidmore Jun 2013 #2

Nothing happened to him career wise treestar Jun 2013 #4

There's not much threat to the power structure treestar Jun 2013 #7

I'm not saying he's under threat ram2008 Jun 2013 #9

How do you know that he hasn't been threatened? ohheckyeah Jun 2013 #10

Exhibit A: Daniel Ellsberg. Scurrilous Jun 2013 #6

True. And still saying what he wants about the "powerful." treestar Jun 2013 #8

K+R sibelian Jun 2013 #11