Daniel Ellsberg: There was no law against leaking the Pentagon Papers nor is there now against Wikileaks
Daniel Ellsberg is a former US military analyst employed by the RAND Corporation who precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of US government decision-making about the Vietnam War, to The New York Times and other newspapers.
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Ralph Nader and Ron Paul on The Federal Reserve, Military Spending, WikiLeaks and Health Care
Free Bradley Manning protest + Protest at the FBI H/Q + Spy Files
Julian Assange on Murdoch, Manning and the threat from China By John Pilger
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
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