text: Nor are there any "good guys" in this, gray---at least, not on the national stage.  It's interesting that Obama didn't immediately act to scale back the largely unchecked executive powers built up by his predecessors, but he didn't.  The War on an emotion continues, and the casualties include American privacy, many of our freedoms, and the right to confront one's accusers, to name just a few.
  
  In that light people like Assange are providing a public service, part of which was in revealing that, under Clinton, the State Department used its diplomats as spies and intelligence gatherers---As if they weren't compromised already!
  
  If what Assange reveals somehow throws the election to the circus freaks, well, that's the price you pay for deceiving the American people.