We know a government s abused their powers and i don t trust the government and i think we ve seen over the last month how many different ways we ve been let down by the government and shouldn t be trusting them because look at how. irs did things and how the justice department targeted journalists. they have gone outside the lines and i think that s something we have to look at. let s see what glen greenwald the reporter from the guardian who broke this story, what he told anderson cooper a little earlier this evening. if it were really my goal to do what people in washington are accusing me of, i could have just published that and what he was saying was that s something i choose not to do and would not do and let me just add that from the beginning of our interactions with mr. snowden he was assistant that he vetted these documents carefully, giving them to us and wanted us to exercise journal list judgment what should be published and what shouldn t. he didn t want indiscriminat
Civilians. yesterday the state department and robert gibbs implored wikileaks not to go through with any more document dumping on their website for all the reasons i outlined. and what s more, state department spokesman p.j. crowelly said they ve tried to contact wikileaks but to no avail. this comes after the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff mike mull ensaid that wikileaks had blood on their hands, something that has been scoffed at by the individual who runs that organization. he says, in fact, it is the united states government. he calls the war misguided, who is responsible for the deaths of countless afghan civilians because of many of the air strikes that caused so much collateral damage. the fear on the part of american officials, alex, is that the taliban and other enemies of the united states and allied forces in afghanistan or for anywhere for that matter are combing through the document that s were dumped via the new york times and the guardian newspaper in london las