WikiLeaks, Chelsea Manning, and the Cost of Leaking

• 59:19Serious investigative reporters like Jane Mayer and Seymour Hersh shy away from certain stories due to fear of professional reputation damage.
• 59:41Robert Caro's LBJ biography reveals him as corrupt and murderous but stops short at the Kennedy assassination—a line even great writers won't cross.
• 1:00:15Tim asks what drives someone like his guest to push forward where others won't: refusing the warnings and just going for the truth.
• 1:00:42The Kennedy assassination is the key to understanding the death of real democracy in America half a century ago.
• 1:01:19Kennedy wasn't necessarily a savior figure but rather someone disrupting forces that opposed him—the real story is what he was disrupting.
• 1:01:49The same people who shape public perceptions do it on everything, which means almost everything is wrong to some extent, including the Kennedy narrative.
• 1:02:01Kennedy was actually quite courageous and admirable with genuine ideas he wanted to execute while balancing reelection and not alienating the ruling class.
• 1:02:34According to Family of Secrets, the guest figured out where George H.W. Bush was on the day of the Kennedy assassination.
• 1:03:05Bush wasn't particularly effective as a policy maker—he lacked the vision thing—but was a key architect of Iran-Contra and a networking guy who knew how to bring people on board.

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