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State of the Union: Ahead of the NATO summit, the president remains trapped by his rhetoric.

Pentagon Papers Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg ’52 Remembered as Nuclear Nonproliferation Advocate, Film Buff | News | The Harvard Crimson

They thought it was ludicrous and of course it is ludicrous. but in such a good way and i kept thinking this is a fairytale. this is going to work because it is a fairytale. alec guinness is the wise old warrior and mark hamill is the callow youth. carrie fisher the beautiful princess and then you had the smart alec. you always have to have one. >> and you did play it well. >> i think i had the chops. >> then george lucas decides to make another movie, raiders of the lost ark. and once again he ...

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Most obituaries for Daniel Ellsberg focus on the courage he summoned when he disclosed the Pentagon Pagers.

Before going to the press, Ellsberg spent a year and a half quietly leaking the Pentagon Papers to leading antiwar lawmakers. They all declined to speak out.

Before going to the press, Ellsberg spent a year and a half quietly leaking the Pentagon Papers to leading antiwar lawmakers. They all declined to speak out.

In 1971, when Daniel Ellsberg arrived at a federal court in Boston, a journalist asked if he was concerned about the prospect of going to prison for leaking a 7,000-page top-secret history of the Vietnam War. Ellsberg responded with a question of his own: “Wouldn’t you go to prison to

Ellsberg left a legacy of public-spirited engagement in favor of anti-war and peacebuilding efforts, against the military-industrial complex and especially nuclear war and weapons proliferation. Most of all, he advocated for whistleblowers like himself and for the 1st amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

The whistleblower confronted his complicity in the Vietnam-era war machine. His successors within it prefer to show up at Henry Kissinger’s gala.