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It's about time Salon got back to business for the type of articles it made it's name with. Journalism is supposed to expose necessary and nefarious activities of any power, whether business or governmental, that threatens to undermine the rules that bind our society together. Other newspapers and magazines are willing to allow the government to sweep this under the rug and charge only the low-level soldiers involved, which does the country as a hole an injustice.