Surprise! A journalist can expose government misdeeds without stealing classified documents. On Sunday, December 19, 2021, The New York Times devoted its entire above-the-fold front page to the culmination of an exhaustive five-year investigation uncovering a pattern of disastrous U.S. airstrikes in Iraq and Syria from 2014 to 2018. Having…

Since leaving jail in 2020, the activist has shrunk from politics. — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been confined in London’s Belmarsh Prison since April 2019 fighting extradition to America, where he is charged with federal offenses relating to one of the largest compromises of classified information in the history of the United States. In January 2021, a London district judge found…

WikiLeaks’ claim of credit is bogus. — According to one view of history, Chelsea Manning’s disclosures forced the pullout of American troops from Iraq in 2011. The smoking gun is said to be WikiLeaks’ publication in August of that year of a 5½-year-old State Department cable. The dispatch reproduced an email to the U.S. Mission in Geneva…

See anything missing? — The New York Times Chelsea Manning, “The Fog Machine of War,” The New York Times, June 14, 2014. Chelsea Manning, “Statement dictated by phone to a member of her volunteer support network,” The New York Times, November 4, 2016. Chelsea Manning, “Chelsea Manning: President Trump, Trans People in the Military…