There have been a steady flow of revelations about the extent to which the US military and the CIA involved Blackwater in operations.
And since his departure, a relentless flow of scandalous revelations has further soiled his reputation.
This "Saturday night massacre" of Justice Department officials did not, however, stem the flow of damaging revelations, confessions, and indictments.
Tunisia, Saudi Arabia and Morocco have all tried to stem the flow of Wiki-revelations, whether the subject is corruption, authoritarianism or simply the embarrassment of having private exchanges with American interlocutors enter the public domain.
In April Mr Ganji was arrested, and later charged with his part in a controversial conference in Germany, and the stream of revelations dried up.But on November 30th, when Mr Ganji was in court to deny that he had undermined the state and its institutions, the revelations started to flow again, ever more powerfully.
After one brief lecture from Schroeder, arguing that the origin of life can be seen as a form of revelation, Flew says, "I don't see any way to meet that argument at the moment".
The Mexican president has publicly accused the United States of not doing enough to control the southbound flow of guns and said the revelations in the WikiLeaks cables had irritated his security team.
Not least among its dangers is the menace of revelation, as if the river represents the metaphoric flow of time and its upper regions the origins of the colonists' dominance.
The Book of Revelation is especially vivid.
