In 2008 Barack Obama said, "Government whistleblowers are part of a healthy democracy and must be protected from reprisal." Obama has since prosecuted twice as many whistleblowers as all previous US presidents.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30410.htm#idc-cover

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I honestly feel as the technology age is booming, freedom of information is more accessible now as to what it was 20 years ago. It's becoming a threat to governments around the world, including some Western governments, who have preach so much about 'democracy' is slowly becoming a militarist state. This is more than just whining about small minority of corporate greedy people, this is bigger than that.