"As the NSA revelations have shown, whistleblowing is now an essential art. It is our means of keeping 'public reason' alive," writes Slavoj Žižek in the Guardian.  "We need a new international network to organise the protection of whistleblowers and the dissemination of their message."

Also read this interview with Cullen Hoback, whose film Terms and Conditions May Apply was featured in last month's In The Loop. "We've moved away from a time where something like the Pentagon Papers was enough to bring someone down, and have created a culture where whistleblowing is considered a crime," he says.