[The Westerner]

Peter, I agree with you that Wikileaks has sent men to their death just as Hillary's unsecured Blackberry and servers most certainly did. This aspect of both of these socialists actions should be repeated over and over.

However egregious their breach of confidential data has been, Wikileaks and Snowden and Kim.com, etc. have told the truth that we are already living in 1984. Some IT oldtimers like myself knew it had to be happening as computing got speedier and storage larger.

Now all men know, if they care to think about it. Trump's election was made possible in part by Assange’s anger at HRC. His involvement was essential to making people on the fence aware of how despicable and anti-American HRC is. Reading the Podesta emails was eye opening even to me regarding how they do their dirty work.

So what is to be done? The intel community needs to be changed. Can it be? Is everyone so compromised that no one is beyond being blackmailed and controlled? Or is their ability to construct false narratives about individuals or murder them via stealth making this cleanup impossible? Has absolute power corrupted them absolutely?

[Peter Libra]

Your well thought out and careful response to my post, well taken by me. I will concede that two factors should be born in mind. One is which I stated at this time. That one factor, is the damage unauthorized leaking of information that may happen. The other, which you stated, is of the vast network of information gathering on otherwise unsuspecting citizens.

It has a chilling thought. Even up in Canada where there are only murmurs about surveillance, it is disquieting. You state

"Is everyone so compromised that no one is beyond being blackmailed and controlled"?

I remember accounts of a long gone American president who had a secret surveillance of individuals. He wielded incredible power. Yes, as an English lord stated on absolute power. It's final end is absolute corruption. There seems to be no check or balance. Only thing is the cold, harsh light shining on on it. (IMHO).

[Maverick68]

I hope Assange will now concentrate on destroying the careers of all these rabid anti-Trump, pro-Globalist a-holes around the globe.

[reasonisfaith]

“The intel community needs to be changed.”

Yes, and this is an understatement. The integrity of the entire system is gone, and to that extent it’s pointless to clean up the leaks. Because it means cleaning select aspects of an overall filthy, corrupt intelligence system.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

Your final three questions...my studied opinion only...no, yes, yes.

[StAnDeliver]

"Reading the Podesta emails was eye opening even to me regarding how they do their dirty work.

So what is to be done? The intel community needs to be changed. Can it be? Is everyone so compromised that no one is beyond being blackmailed and controlled? Or is their ability to construct false narratives about individuals or murder them via stealth making this cleanup impossible? Has absolute power corrupted them absolutely?"

You answered your own question in first graf.