I fear for Julian Assange. I fear for Bradley Manning. I fear for us all.

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57. Why do you think that Wikileaks did not consider the impact on people's lives? Where did you

read that? Did you know that Wikileaks contacted the US Military and asked them for help with ensuring that no harm would come to anyone, and that the military refused to do so?

Are you aware that Wikileaks worked with several major news outlets including he NY Times because they had the staff that Wikileaks lacked who could sort through the vast amounts of material they had been given. All those news organizations published that material. Do you think they were also irresponsible? Or is publishing facts something the media should do?

It's astounding how propaganda and lies spread so quickly and people seem so unwilling to seek out facts even when they are available.

No one was harmed by Wikileaks' work. Even Gates admitted that. Yet this perception prevails even though it is false.

The irony is that this country thought nothing of getting our soldiers killed based on LIES or killing, speaking of 'endangering', over one million human beings based on LIES. And that not one criminal has been held accountable for any of those crimes.

But the people who reported on those horrific crimes are the ones being persecuted.

The Cables revealed so much about how this country operates, yet I doubt many Americans have bothered to even read them. People around the world now know eg, that the Obama administration intervened in the Spanish Court's case against Bush Torturers and intimidated the Court into dropping the case, FOR NOW. How shameful that other countries are going to have to prosecute OUR War Criminals because we refuse to do so ourselves.

Chris Hedges is one of the few journalists left with the courage to tell the truth. He needs to watch his back considering the persecution of whistle blowers, protesters against Wall St. corruption, journalists who report facts such as eg, Ashley Banfield. This is a very, very bad period in our history and will probably be recorded that way and we will all be judged by history as to how we dealt with the injustices we witnessed.