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It's so easy to take the moral high ground when one has zero power. That briefly summarizes Clay's self-important diatribe. More to the point: who's Clay Johnso
by Rod 16y ago
It's so easy to take the moral high ground when one has zero power. That briefly summarizes Clay's self-important diatribe. More to the point: who's Clay Johnson? That's right: nobody knows, and nobody cares.
- eli 16y agoHe's in charge of the tech arm of the Sunlight Foundation, a pretty cool group working for increased transparency in government. They're behind projects like opencongress.org. I'd say he's pretty well known among the "open source government" crowd.
- grandalf 16y agoHe lost me when he admitted to having been involved in the Howard Dean campaign. He clearly has a very favorable view of governmental entities and aspires to be favored by those in power.
- jfarmer 16y agoBecause he worked on a political campaign?
- grandalf 16y agoNo, that he's boasting about it as evidence of why he should be trusted over Assange.
- jfarmer 16y agoHuh? His comment was critical of Howard Dean's campaign. Here's what he said: "No organization like Wikileaks can survive a cult of personality, or one person’s delusions of grandeur. Trust me — I worked on Howard Dean’s presidential campaign." He's not saying "Trust me, I worked on a political campaign." He's saying, with a bit of dark humor, "Trust me, I know what it's like to be involved in a cult of personality and watch it fail because of it."