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3 days ago · Daniel Ellsberg, the man who controversially revealed the US’s secret Pentagon Papers, passed on June 16, 2023. A year later, his contributions to the nation remain evident. He staunchly advocated citizen activism and supported fellow whistleblowers. His arguments for nuclear disarmament, government transparency and humanism ring true today.
1 day ago · Daniel Ellsberg’s actions in 1971 further underscore the risks whistleblowers face. As a former RAND Corporation military analyst, Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers, revealing the U.S. government’s decades-long deception about the Vietnam War.
2 days ago · Daniel Ellsberg, a former defense analyst who leaked the famous “Pentagon Papers” to the New York Times and other newspapers, faced charges under the Act, and went to trial in Los Angeles in 1973.
1 day ago · Even Daniel Ellsberg, who famously leaked the classified Pentagon Papers to the New York Times in 1971, faced charges under the Espionage Act. They were dismissed only because officials of then-US president Richard Nixon’s administration engaged in unlawful misconduct against him.
15 hours ago · Buy Book. Half a century ago, as a budding writer living in San Francisco, she met an unbalanced young man named Anthony Russo, a former Rand analyst who had worked with Daniel Ellsberg to make ...
1 day ago · The whole world paid homage when Daniel Ellsberg died eleven months earlier because Ellsberg—by stealing and revealing the infamous Pentagon Papers—had become famous: front-page top-of-the-fold headline news for months and even years.
1 day ago · Assange’s plea could just as readily describe Daniel Ellsberg and The Pentagon Papers, long hailed as a North Star of American journalism. But while mainstream media increasingly dithers to the US Security State (groups like the Washington Post repeatedly advocated for the jailing of the WikiLeaks publisher), Assange remained resolute in his pursuit of informational freedom.
