Hello again, tom:
I HATE the word, "transparency", just like I HATE the words, "going forward". Those are PC words that DON'T say anything...
There are things that a nation needs to keep SECRET. Then there are things that a leader keeps SECRET that are simply EMBARRASSING to him. They are NOT the same things. I'm all FOR keeping your lips sealed about one, and I'm all FOR revealing everything about the other.
I suggest the leaks DID reveal new things. Nonetheless, you CONFIRM above, the laziness of our current "lame stream media". As you point out, IF they had done their jobs, they COULD have pieced these stories together and REPORTED them... They DIDN'T. They were too busy attending beltway cocktail parties rubbing elbows with the people they were supposed to be reporting on... That's why Assange did us a service.
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