US denies 'wild' Assange claims of witch-hunt

[JDPriestly]

39. Well said. Thanks.

I for one came to distrust the media when it became very obvious that Bush had simply lied us into a war in which over 3,000 of our soldiers plus who knows how many private contractors died and in which we killed, many, many, countless Iraqis.

Until the American people are well enough informed that a war like the War in Iraq becomes impossible we will need a dissident media in addition to what we have. And how that dissident media gets its information is less important to me than that it get full information.

Yes, the government should be able to protect truly important military secrets, but as we see from Wikileaks, they have gone way beyond that and have now established themselves as the manipulators and controllers of the media. That is unacceptable.