Julian Assage's demeanor or persona is irrelevant.
some of those had a little bit of impact
How the hell can that be legal? Are police officers banned from joining all political parties or just the BNP?
Membership of, say, the Green Party, does not conflict with the officer's obligations.
It's better than a policy of ignoring the beliefs of your officers, isn't it?
I'd agree that policemen shouldn't wear their uniforms to a meeting of any political party. This is very different though.
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The American press has been embedded and self-censored out of relevancy when it comes to war reporting.
In war, you can make all the right decisions and innocent people will still needlessly die. It's a far stronger statement of the horrors of war and the need to avoid it than the ridiculous claim that the military was intentionally targeting reporters and children.
This piece of information makes an attack on Iran (and the subsequent bloodshed and mayhem) less likely, once the light has been shined on the Saudi hand. This, IMHO, is a good thing. If we have to attack Iran (and I'm not saying we should), then we should do so because Iran is a threat to US, and not to the Saudis.
Potential informants, no longer trusting the US to be able to keep their identities secret, clam up. Intelligence dries up. Bombs go off. People die. Dogs and cats living together. Mass hysteria.
Much like throwing pennies off the top of the Empire State Building, though, uncertainty about whether something will have positive or disastrously negative consequences is generally a good argument against doing it.