[Note: I'm an American; hi NSA!] > I'd really like to see Wikileaks devoting more of its time, energy, and > fund-raising into breaking news about gove

[Note: I'm an American; hi NSA!] > I'd really like to see Wikileaks devoting more of its time, energy, and > fund-raising into breaking news about government-operated surveillance > programs in the last two countries where Edward Snowden has been located The big deal is that the US is no longer the shining beacon of hope-/change-y-ness or freedom that it claimed to be. We, the US, need to keep that beacon BRIGHTLY LIT. Those states which don't follow the lead will be pressed by the press or dissenters to follow or will repress freedom. [Yes, I acknowledge that the beacon-lit thing is dramatic and too-large, but that's the US for you.] Lose that and we join a race to the freedom-bottom the US founders would be shocked to learn we have undertaken.