The Dangerous Logic of the Bradley Manning Case
20 Mar 2013 • newrepublic.comYochai Benkler writing for the New Republic:
Are we the America of Japanese Internment and Joseph McCarthy, or are we the America of Ida Tarbell and the Pentagon Papers? What kind of country makes communicating with the press for publication to the American public a death-eligible offense?
What a coup for Al Qaeda, to have maimed our constitutional spirit to the point where we might become that nation.
Things like this make me lose sleep at night. via The Brief