> After all, despite the massive volume of documents released, there has been surprisingly little material for scandal. I feel really sad reading this. The imp

> After all, despite the massive volume of documents released, there has been surprisingly little material for scandal. I feel really sad reading this. The impression I've gotten from the media (mostly newspapers, little TV coverage) about this leak is that any and all "issues", "scandals", whatever you want to call them are downplayed, dismissed or worse, not even mentioned. I have the uneasy feeling that had this come to light when Bush was president, the outrage would be massive; now, however, few seem to care and I don't see any willingness to make people care either. As a sidenote to, quoting: "When your personal medical or financial records can be disclosed at any time, will you still enjoy the notion of “free speech”?" : The Greek government, with consent from EU, is planning to make any and all citizens' financial records public. The legal basis for this enterprise exists since 1992, and it's only awaiting approval from the DPA (Hellenic Data Protection Authority). I assure you that barring the initial exclamation-filled newspaper headlines, nobody's said a word about this. So, Mr. Vegter, the people are far too misinformed and manipulated by biased executives to care about their privacy anymore, let alone "free speech". Congratulations.