When Gossip Turns Espionage

Julian Assange must be kicking himself. If he had peddled state secrets and not upscale gossip, he would have been a free man today. Revelations of policy errors and institutional blunders do not anger the powerful as much as when their human failings are exposed. Mock the American state, lampoon European governments, and nothing will happen, but brush a public figure with a touch of tar and all hell breaks loose.

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