surrounding why it is that the obama administration is still obstructing the united nations special robert scheer on torture juan mendez from conducting an unmonitored meeting with bradley manning the. like the un is good enough for this president to use an excuse to get us into a war with libya without ever asking congress but when it comes to examining our own abuses our own citizens not so much let's not forget also that this was the president who once said that whistleblowers employees with the courage to report wrongdoing are the government's best defense against waste fraud and abuse and i guess they only mean that when it doesn't apply to abuses carried out overseas in our various wars you know this past year has really been remarkable what the amount of change happening around the world good and that the arab spring revolutions economic crises rising global imbalances now leading to the start of a movement here in the united states to occupy wall street things are happening the world is changing and i think that's fair to say that the information that wiki leaks has made available to the