Still, for some Americans on the left, the most significant effect of the documents’ publication was the disenchanting revelation that Obama’s administration was, in certain concrete ways, at least as violent and secretive as the Bush administration had been. My disclosures brought to light Obama’s use of drone strikes in Yemen and the increasing restriction of the press’s access to information. For many, it became difficult to justify the government’s many sins, and it was difficult not to count my prosecution among them. For my part, I had no time to notice or care, even as the news cycle
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