Staff: Do you ever wonder why someone would turn over secret documents/information to the public domain. Are they traitors? Fame seekers? Fortune hunters? What's their agenda? How about this: 

The Nation,  Jonathan Schell 

The Army intelligence analyst Pfc. Bradley Manning, 22, now in a military detention center charged with having leaked classified documents related to the Iraq War, once explained why he was contemplating his deed. (He is additionally suspected of having leaked the 390,000 documents made public by the whistleblowing solicitor WikiLeaks, but he has not been charged with this.) Manning was not yet in prison or in the media spotlight. He was artlessly and recklessly chatting online to a blogger, Adrian Lamo, who eventually turned him in. Lamo wanted to know why Manning didn't cash in by giving the documents to a foreign power, such as China or Russia. Because "it belongs in the public domain," Manning replied. "Information should be free...because another state would just take advantage of the information...try and get some edge.... It should be a public good."

Our Opinion: The choice for D.A.
by Daily Hampshire Gazette

For years, because no challengers came forward, area voters did not have to consider what the Northwestern district attorney does, nor what qualifies someone to hold the job. This year, as if to make up for lost time, two Democratic candidates - Michael A. Cahillane and David E. Sullivan - have been heralding their fitness for the job of top law-enforcement official in Hampshire and Franklin counties.

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United States citizens must sooner or later face the fact that the bombings of our embassies in Tanzania and Kenya were brought about in part by the muddled actions of our own government. The story is worthy of a John Clancy novel. It is an open secret throughout the region that the United States, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia have been supporting the fundamentalist Taleban in their war for control of Afghanistan for some time. The U.S. has never openly acknowledged this connection, although it has been confirmed by intelligence sources and charitable institutions in Pakistan.