Nixon Did Have A Secret Plan, And

The Fact Is That When It Comes To Judgment As To What Should Be Secret And What Should Not Be Secret, Julian Assange's Judgment Has Been Pretty Good So Far.

Obama Is Making A Choice Now That Will Lead To The Deaths Of Many Thousands Of Civilians In Afghanistan By American Hands. By Ordinary Standards Of Presidents, He Is A Decent Man. But Those Standards Aren't Good Enough. He's In A Position Either To Kill Or Not To Kill, And He's Made The Decision To Kill.

It Is A Tribute To The American People That Our Leaders Perceived That They Had To Lie To Us, It Is Not A Tribute To Us That We Were So Easily Misled.

I See Edward Snowden As Someone Who Has Chosen, At Best, Exile From The Country He Loves-with A Serious Risk Of His Assassination By Agents Of His Government Or Life In Prison (in Solitary Confinement)-to Awaken Us To The Danger Of Our Loss Of Democracy To A Total-surveilla Nce State

It's Naive And Even Irresponsible For A Grownup Today To Get Her Or His Information About Foreign Policy And War And Peace Exclusively From The Administration In Power. It's Essential To Have Other Sources Of Information, To Check Those Against One's Own Common Sense, And To Form Your Own Judgment As To Whether We Ought To Go To Or Persist In War.