1. The biggest #AfghanistanPapers revelation is how difficult they were to get into public view. It took the Bezos Post YEARS of REPEATED lawsuits to obtain information that had essentially already been public knowledge for many years, and they did it mainly to hurt Trump.
2. The people shouldn't have to depend on plutocrat-owned media and their lawyers to obtain basic information about wars they themselves paid for. They shouldn't have to hope that a corporate outlet with massive resources will have a partisan agenda that happens to expose truth.
3. Per WaPo's own story, the obtaining and publication of the #AfghanistanPapers both started and ended with a desire to tag the Trump administration. What things have WaPo and its layers NOT pursued because it didn't fit a partisan agenda? People shouldn't have to rely on that. 
4. All this to obtain knowledge we'd already basicaly had for a very long time.
5. US government agencies have no business hiding this sort of information from the American taxpayer, but you may be absolutely certain that they hide far, FAR more than you know about, much of it far, FAR worse than anything in the #AfghanistanPapers.
6. You couldn't find it on your own if you wanted to. Do you have the time, money and resources to chase US government agencies through years of repeated lawsuits? I know I don't. That's my whole point here. It shouldn't be this difficult to get this info.
8. Excellent way of putting it. The hoops that WaPo had to jump through to obtain the mildly classified #AfghanistanPapers via Freedom of Information Act request would have shut out virtually any private citizen. Even WaPo had a very hard time with it.
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