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3 days ago · After working inside this country’s doomsday machinery, even drafting nuclear war plans for the Pentagon during President John F Kennedy’s administration, Dan Ellsberg had gained intricate perspectives on what greased the bureaucratic wheels, personal ambitions and political messaging of the warfare state.
4 days ago · The Pentagon Papers utilizes the Pentagon as an essential setting for its historical drama, highlighting the internal workings and ethical struggles of those involved in the Vietnam War controversy. The Pentagon's atmosphere of secrecy and the tension surrounding the classified documents intensify the film's exploration of truth and the moral imperative to inform the public.
3 days ago · Andrew Napolitano: Yes, and I don’t want to get too deep into the weeds, but the Pentagon Papers case, which is based on very similar behavior involving Daniel Ellsberg and The Washington Post and The New York Times, articulates the absolute immunity from civil liability or criminal prosecution to the publisher of matters material to the ...
3 days ago · It most closely resembled a similar event over 50 years ago when the courageous Daniel ellsberg published the Pentagon Papers. These revealed that President Lyndon Johnson’s White House had systematically lied its head off about the Vietnam War.
3 days ago · From the founding of WikiLeaks to Climategate. Assange, a noted computer hacker, pleaded guilty to a host of cybercrime charges in 1991, but, because of his youth, he received only minimal punishment. He was inspired to create WikiLeaks by Daniel Ellsberg ’s 1971 release of the Pentagon Papers.
- WikiLeaks is a media organization and website that functions as a clearinghouse for classified or otherwise privileged information.
- WikiLeaks was founded by Australian computer programmer and activist Julian Assange in 2006. Assange was inspired to create WikiLeaks by Daniel Ell...
- The first document posted to the WikiLeaks website, in December 2006, was a message from a Somali rebel leader encouraging the use of hired gunmen...
2 days ago · As a round-up of cases until 2013 by ProPublica shows, the Pentagon Papers containing classified information on the Vietnam War led to the indictment of analysts Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo.
3 days ago · It can be recalled that the Pentagon Papers, which was the official history of the Vietnam war locked away in the defence department strong rooms, was leaked to The New York Times and The Washington Post, by Daniel Ellsberg, the government raised the same cry that it compromised the security of the country.
