whistleblowers we we've seen whistleblowers of all kinds crushed in the past few years chelsea manning edward snowden john kerry aka jeffrey starling the guy who revealed there were no go mad chemicals in the subway sandwiches and. i mean i don't know that he was persecuted but i assume the subway people sweeney todd him into a meatball saw. but let's just say one name chelsea manning she revealed the war crimes of our empire she then torture in our prisons for years her sentence is then commuted she's released and now they have her. locked up again for nothing literally nothing i mean i mean i mean really nothing like that like the educational value of the bachelor nothing nothing so whistleblowers i'm going to mark them. persecuted i've got persecuted. let's move on the. move on the publishers last week to you tonight is nations special rapporteur tor on torture reiterated a warning that julian assange is life.