I originally posted the following information and commentary onto my Facebook wall…
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, looking out the window from the Ecuadorian embassy, in London, England, where he is staying
WikiLeaks Is Getting Scarier Than the NSA:
http://time.com/4450282/wikileaks-julian-assange-dnc-hack-criticism/
(Karl Vick) When WikiLeaks surged to global prominence six years ago, it was for its work posting hundreds of thousands of pages of secret government documents about the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, followed by a quarter million confidential cables by American diplomats. Working with major news organizations, including the New York Times, the Guardian and Der Spiegel, the site was associated both with accountability and a bold new version of “radical transparency.”
That has changed. With the publication of emails expressly aimed at damaging Hillary Clinton’s presidential candidacy, WikiLeaks has shifted from a global platform for whistle-blowers to something less exalted — and lately, a bit strange.
My Commentary: Time.com, doing what it does best: shilling for the empire…
