Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers — 7,000 secret government pages showing the government had misled the public about the Vietnam War — to the New York Times and the Washington Post. NBC News’ Andrea Mitchell has a look back on his legacy.
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Being designated as "The most dangerous man in America" by Henry Kissinger was more flattering than receiving a Nobel Prize. The U.S.A.'s slow motion murder of Julian Assange should alert us how far American democracy has slid into the abyss. Ellsberg today wouldn't stand a chance.
People like him make America great, not Trump nor Biden.
RIP Mr Ellsberg.
A real hero. No such thing as real journalism anymore, only propaganda.
Another rip bozo
Peace. Kissinger was speaking his opinion about himself. "…for out of a man's heart, a man speaks…" Those against political transparency are the greatest threats to all of mankind. Being integral to mankind's well-being and peace is a higher calling than feigned, so-called national patriotism. Think. Peace.
A life well spent. A true American hero who did the right thing at the right time.
Welp apparently only jews are allowed to leak information to the press.
Name a more privileged group of people…
We will never forget the Gulf of Tonkin psyop
Lol today he’s be in a jail cell in a different country or deliberately hunted down by the media to be made an example of. Man, time changed the left for the worst.
If he lived today he’d be an enemy of the state…
It is truly sad that he did not live long enough to see so called "journalism" (the interviewer is no exception) recover from the professional, ethical and moral decay to which it has sunk. He sacrificed a great deal to a profession that has utterly betrayed the likes of Ellsberg, most notably at present Julian Assange, who Ellsberg supported.
Kissinger was more dangerous than Ellsberg. The Pentagon Papers were merely a historical document. No harm came to the United States or to any individual from their release, only embarrassment.
Daniel Ellsberg was an American Hero. Hopefully, some day, he will be recognized as such and have statues and tributes made for him.
Who is he? 😂