The Disillusionment and Reassessment of the War

I've always thought of myself primarily as a writer and an observer more than as somebody with very strong political convictions you know it's interesting I had kind of an eye-opening experience when I worked on both reporting on WikiLeaks stories and then also working with Edward Snowden who himself joined the army after 9-11 and wanted to go fight in the war in Iraq believing that it was a just a noble cause. He broke his legs and basic training ended up the CIA and the NSA but he discovered while he was doing that there was a gap between what the government had made people believe it was doing  and what it was actually doing. It seems like one of the most significant parts of this change