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Here’s the thing: None of the information Julian Assange, pictured, released hurt anybody, and a lot of it needed to be revealed: war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan and government surveillance of tens of millions of U.S. citizens. The CIA made it all secret because it could, not because it was necessary or justifiable, writes Gwynne Dyer. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
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