The one real irritant is that my young children - they also adapt. They adapt to being without their father. That's a hard, hard adaption which they didn't ask for. I worry about them; I worry about their mother.

The US presidency will continue to represent the major power groups of the United States - big business and the military - regardless of who the talking head is.

You can either be informed and your own rulers, or you can be ignorant and have someone else, who is not ignorant, rule over you.

What we know is everything, it is our limit, of what we can be.

These big-package releases. There should be a cute name for them.

Let us not compare Edward Snowden's situation with that of Chelsea Manning or Jeremy Hammond, who is also imprisoned in the United States. As a result of WikiLeaks' hard work, Edward Snowden has political asylum, has travel documents, lives with his girlfriend, goes to the ballet and earns substantial speaking fees. Edward Snowden is essentially free and happy. That is no coincidence. It was my strategy to undo the chilling effect of the 35 year Manning sentence and it has worked.

The attack on the truth by war begins long before war starts and continues long after a war ends.