So I think it is safe to say-the Alt Media ALL OF THEM owes me an apology

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42. K/R. Hedges yesterday on Democracy Now

gets my vote for best ratfuck of the week. Hedges to Amy:

That’s what’s so frightening. And it’s a pattern that we’ve seen, with the use of the Espionage Act, to essentially silence whistleblowers within the government—Kiriakou, Drake and others, although Kiriakou went to jail on—pled out on another charge—the FISA Amendment Act, which allows for warrantless wiretapping, the National Defense Authorization Act, which allows for the stripping of American citizens of due process and indefinite detention. And it is one more assault in a long series of assault against freedom of information and freedom of the press. And I would also, of course, throw in the persecution of Julian Assange at WikiLeaks and Bradley Manning as part of that process. . . .

http://www.democracynow.org/2013/5/15/chris_hedges_monitoring_of_ap_phones

Yes, Chris, go ahead and "throw in the persecution of Julian Assange at WikiLeaks," even though the US has brought no charges against him, and has no plans to:


http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/22/us-wikileaks-assange-usa-idUSBRE87L12W20120822