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Article Evaluation
I did my article evaluation of the Wikipedia page of History of Painting. This article goes in depth of the history and all the different cultures that painting has touched. The article talks about how far back painting goes in Western and Eastern cialivianions. This article is very on point about how it present the topic due to laying out the frame out of how the art was started. In the contents of the page it gives different sections of all different nations across the world. It lists them by Eastern, Western, American, Islamic, Oceania, and Africa. This is a great format for the page because you are able to pick through what region and culture you want to study about their painting history. The pages tone is very neutral only relying on the facts that have been presented. For an example in the American section of the content it shows Native American that is a Navajo and he is in full ceremonial dress with a mask and body paint.

Wikipedia Article Choice
I have chosen to focus on the Wikipedia page Global Surveillance and Journalism. This page takes a look into the treatment of whistleblowers in the United States and the state of Journalism in the wake of the Global Surveillance that has been happening under citizens radar for years. Global Surveillance is a global issue due to the fact that it effects everyone, and many over the global don't realize they are being surveilled. So the press and journalist are willing to take the leap and reveal the truth behind the governments true demeanor even with harsh consequence such as prison. The war on whistleblowers in this country is a real thing. I have found many news articles and they cover all events that have played out through the years.

Trump Current position on Whistleblowers
Since the start of the presidency of Donald Trump his stance on whistleblowers and leakers is that he is furious with them since being in office. This is due to the fact that during one of Donald Trump meetings a secret aide had released what was talked about during the briefing to the press. The topics that were discussed were about Vladimir Putin and Russian relations. Trump also holds the stance that the news organization that publish should be punished. He has gone on rants on his twitter during his presidency complaining about the whistleblowers and leakers. The press believes that Trump has set out to limit the free press and this is another way he is doing that. He also has gone to former FBI director James Comey on serval occasion asking if the department could put a stop to leaks, also asked if journalists arrested. In the past though Donald Trump has stated that "Wikileaks is not his thing." But during is run for president he had brought up Wikileaks more than a handful due him talking about the material that put democrats in a bad light, but as we know now he said it will be up to the Attorney General William Barr will decide further action for Assange.

The Obama Admission on Whistleblowers
Just since 2009 the Obama Admission has been cracking down on whistleblower using Espionage ac t which six have been prosecute and charged with. Such as John Kiriakou, he is serving thirty-month term due to making public that an intelligence ops is using torture. This is where most whistleblowers find themselves viewing awful crimes but while they exposing what is going on they get punished serval, as the ones who have committed the original act goes untouched.

Four NSA Whistleblowers
The best case is the four whistleblowers from the National Security Agency and their names were Thomas Drake, William Binney, J. Kirk Wiebe and Edward Loomis. They had criticized the project called Trailblazer, exposing the NSA for it's Multibillion dollar contact that went awry. It was cancelled in 2006 but it was supposed to bring in an era to surveillance in the digital age it was called SIGINT. The lost money in the projects failure still remains unknown to the public but kept a state secret. This goes all the way back to 2002 when another in-house program was denied by the agency director Gen. Michael Hayden how devoted it just three weeks before 9/11. So in 2002 the three whistleblowers went to the pentagon to advise them to do an investigation on the NSA.

Binney had claimed the the United States is in a police state, that concedes with other regimes such as like KGB, the Stasi, Gestapo, and the SS. But the U.S has more power than them because of the technology they have acquired. He describes the U.S state now as the Weimar Republic was the prior liberal democracy before the Nazi regime. Back in 2011 the Pentagon's Office of Inspector General(OIG) declassified documents that are the only response for the claims that come from the four whistleblowers.The documents go further into the fault of the NSA for wasting resources on the failed attempt at Trailblazer.

Background
Chelsea Manning was a United States Army solider who in 2013 was convicted of illegally downloading military reports that were unclassified and sensitive military documents. The documents were from both wars the U.S was involved in, Iraq and Afghanistan. Where she had acquired the documents, was on the military base in Baghdad.

With the documents that were leaked Manning wanted to put censorship on the sources that would in danger troops or national security such as Nuclear information. She didn't want to in danger any troops by giving away there movements and patterns during the war but instead she wanted to expose the missteps and misguided policies that pledged the war.

She had provided Wikileaks with the evidence of the Collateral Murder where the U.S army had killed 12 unarmed citizens with an Apache attack helicopter. They were attacked in a Baghdad suburb. Among the killed two of the victims were Reuters staff. Manning stated the the act was "Bloodlust", and example of the U.S military acting irresponsible in the Iraq War. As seen on the footage one aerial weapons team eggs on a wounded Iraqi to put up a gun so that they could have probable reason to keep firing.

On August 21, 2013 was sentenced to thirty-five years for providing the sensitive documents to WikiLeaks. She only served seven of those years due to be commuted by the out going president Barrack Obama. While in prison Manning tried taking her life twice due the struggles over her gender, trying to fight to get a gender reassignment.

March 8, 2019 Arrest
During a court case that was for investigating Julien Assange ties to Manning herself back prior in 2010. She was ordered to testify in front of a grand jury but since it was a secret panel she refused to testify. So on March 8 was ordered to be put back to jail in Alexandria, VA. She will be locked in there until she testifies or the jury is wound up. She still remains behind bars even til today.

Julien Assange and WikiLeaks
In 2006 Wikileaks was created by Julien Assange and the goal for Wikileaks is to capture the truth by any means, which has put them in the International Spotlight over the years. Since the birth Wikileaks has released classified documents regarding the war effort in the middle east, document regarding the detainees in Guantanamo Bay, and releasing the emails from Democratic National Committee staffers.

U.S Crackdown on Assange
On April 11, 2019 Assange was arrested after being taken from the Ecuadorian embassy. The U.S in the Justice Department believes that with the position at Wikileaks during the 2016 elections he had a key role in the Russian attack on the 2016 elections. During the same election had had released DNC staff flies as well, many believe that he released them because the next day was democratic election. Soon after a DNC staffer named Seth Rich was murder and was to believed to be leaking the e-mails. Also the U.S Department of Defense believes that Assange had conspired with Chelsea Manning in cracking a password that was on a U.S Department of Defense computer. Which is stored on a U.S government network and she had downloaded 1,000 of classified documents.

Child Labour Law
The article is completely on topic going through the history of how the law came about. It would be hard to add to the the history of child labour due to the fact the depth they go into. They could go in more depth about how this law effects kids internationally. In the begaining you list a lot about the leaders but only a brief details, possibly expanding on that. There should be a few key Child Labour Cases provided in your Wikipedia page. I really do like the list of the wages throughout every state. I gives us as the reader context to where each state is with that issue and it does involve children labour laws. You might possible need more sources for your page. I do like the outlook you have for what your plans are. Just continue to expand on that and refine you're topics.