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Daniel Ellsberg
Daniel Ellsberg was put on trial in 1973 for leaking the Pentagon Papers, but the case was dismissed after four months because of government misconduct. He is the author of "Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers."
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Views Monday, October 06, 2014 Ellsberg Sees Vietnam-Like Risks in ISIS War At a recent talk at the National Press Club in Washington DC, Daniel Ellsberg, who released the Pentagon Papers in 1971, says he believes there’s not one person in the Pentagon who would agree that President Obama can achieve his aim of destroying ISIS in Iraq and Syria with air strikes, along with... Read more |
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Views Thursday, January 09, 2014 On Secrecy, Oaths, and Edward Snowden These two pieces, the first by Marcy Wheeler , in part commenting on the second by Amy Davidson in the New Yorker (along with Snowden himself, in Read more |
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Views Monday, July 08, 2013 Snowden Made the Right Call When He Fled the US Many people compare Edward Snowden to me unfavorably for leaving the country and seeking asylum, rather than facing trial as I did. I don’t agree. The country I stayed in was a different America, a long time ago. Read more |
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Views Monday, June 10, 2013 Edward Snowden: Saving Us from the United Stasi of America In my estimation, there has not been in American history a more important leak than Edward Snowden's release of NSA material – and that definitely includes the Pentagon Papers 40 years ago . Read more |
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Views Wednesday, March 13, 2013 A Salute to Bradley Manning, Whistleblower, As We Hear His Words for the First Time On Tuesday, the Freedom of the Press Foundation , an organization that I co-founded and of which I'm on the board , has published an audio recording of Bradley Manning's speech to a military court from two weeks ago, in which he gives his reasons and motivations behind leaking over 700,000 government documents to WikiLeaks. Read more |
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Views Thursday, October 18, 2012 Defeat Romney, Without Illusions about Obama It is urgently important to prevent a Republican administration under Romney/Ryan from taking office in January 2013. The election is now just weeks away, and I want to urge those whose values are generally in line with mine -- progressives, especially activists -- to make this goal one of your priorities during this period. Read more |
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Views Wednesday, March 28, 2012 For Nuclear Security Beyond Seoul, Eradicate Land-Based 'Doomsday' Missiles President Obama and other world leaders gathered at the Nuclear Security Summit in Seoul, South Korea, this week to address threats posed by unsecured nuclear material. If Mr. Read more |
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Views Monday, June 13, 2011 Why the Pentagon Papers Matter Now The declassification and online release Monday of the full original version of the Pentagon Papers – the 7,000-page top secret Pentagon study of US decision-making in Vietnam 1945-67 – comes 40 years after I gave it to 19 newspapers and to Senator Mike Gravel (minus volumes on negotiations, which I had given only to the Senate foreign relations committee). Read more |
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Views Saturday, March 12, 2011 This Shameful Abuse of Bradley Manning President Obama tells us that he's asked the Pentagon whether the conditions of confinement of Bradley Manning, the soldier charged with leaking state secrets, "are appropriate and are meeting our basic standards. They assure me that they are." Read more |
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Views Thursday, January 28, 2010 A Memory of Howard I just learned that my friend Howard Zinn died today. Earlier this morning, I was being interviewed by the Boston Phoenix, in connection with the release in Boston in February of a documentary in which he is featured prominently. The interviewer asked me who my own heroes were, and I had no hesitation in answering, first, "Howard Zinn." Read more |