Some background

Since Barack Obama entered the White House in 2009, his government has waged a war against whistleblowers and official leakers. On his watch, there have been eight prosecutions under the 1917 Espionage Act – more than double those under all previous presidents combined.

The reaction to Wiki-Leaks information on the Hillary Clinton campaign has bordered upon hysteria since the election.

We are now watching the assembly of Trump's Executive Administration, the opportunities for conflict of interest seem almost without limit.

Now who are you going to rely upon to find out about the truth.

The Democratic Party?

Chuck Schumer has basically admitted he wants to smooth the way for Trump by sitting around the camp-fire and singing kumbaya in the spirit of neoliberal bipartisanship. Anything to protect the oligarchy one could say.

The Main Stream Media?

Hahahahahahaha. What makes them think they are going to change, they have often been the official organs for such laudatory Imperial actions as the "Iraq War and Occupation".

Then

In 2004, The New York Times issued a half-hearted apology for their previous coverage of the Iraq war, in which the publication helped manufacture consent for a disastrous invasion that was predicated on false information. “In some cases, information that was controversial then, and seems questionable now, was insufficiently qualified or allowed to stand unchallenged,” wrote the Times’ editors. The Washington Post and several other mainstream media outlets also served as aggressive propagandists in favor of the Iraq war

Now:

The New York Times and nearly every major news publication in the country formally endorsed Clinton during the Democratic primaries, and the general election. WikiLeaks revealed that several dozen reporters from mainstream media outlets coordinated with the Clinton campaign and attended private parties with their campaign staff. Clinton received a disproportionate amount of support from mainstream media in the primaries and general election, yet pro-Clinton journalists continue to blame Clinton’s opponents for her defeat instead of assuming responsibility for coalescing around a highly unfavorable, flawed candidate.

Manipulation of the media is definitely the fault of the Russians!

Quick punch a hippy.

Writers like Glenn Greenwald that went from hero to zero when a democrat was in power.

Chelsea Manning's living hell, pretty much ignored by all but a few.

A sitting President that has to all intents and purposes pardoned torture and war crimes by just moving on, the Democratic Party, the press and the partisans have hardly been outraged about that one.

The self styled Liberal Blogs?

Who basically surrendered to the neoliberal demands and lost a great deal of any credibility they once had in so doing. Any messenger was joyously attacked when the message didn't conform to the talking points, the truth could go hang.

The Democratic Party and their partisans fail to realize the damage they have done over the years by tacitly supporting such glorious act as The Patriot Act just because their party happened to be in power. The president even lead the charge on the TPP until and election threatened and that it threatened to be far worse than NAFTA, it's a good job Bernie ran otherwise that one would have been ignored as well.

The left that was both during the campaign and after disparaged, mocked and vilified for the campaigns own colossal failings?

Racists! Misogynists! Russians! Bernie Bros!

Who are you going to turn to now? Personally you burnt those bridges and I am not going to help in rebuilding them. You can all run to the neo-liberal teat for succour for all I care. No doubt you will put on the mantle of self righteousness once more, until the next election anyway. Will "Not as bad as" be your clarion call once more?

The Whistle-blowers?

They may be all that you have left in the fight.

Will you call them Russian spies and or traitors once again?

Will you remain silent when they are persecuted and prosecuted under laws that you applauded or ignored at best?

Will they be the target of your ire if they expose truths you don't happen to like because politiks?

Hypocrisy has a cost