In comparing Snowden to Hammond, Lucas pointed out that the mainstream media may be more reluctant to report on a corporation like Stratfor when Stratfor's clients might be advertising sponsors: "Journalists play a large role in controlling what information the public receives. It is safer, for business and editorial approval, to write about a whistleblower who leaked information from the federal government, the traditional opponent of influential investigative journalists, than about a whistleblower who hacked out information about local cops collaborating with corporate spies."

A new analysis of the intelligence and military relationship between the U.S. and Israeli governments-bolstered by new top secret NSA documents leaked by Edward Snowden-exposes the deep complicity of American foreign policy when it comes to enabling Israel s continued occupation of the Palestinian territories and its ongoing aggressive military assault on the Gaza Strip.