Daniel Ellsberg, whistleblower who leaked Pentagon Papers, dies
Ellsberg later was a prominent free speech and anti-Iraq war activist, and a champion of such future whistleblowers as Edward Snowden.
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Ellsberg later was a prominent free speech and anti-Iraq war activist, and a champion of such future whistleblowers as Edward Snowden.
He embodied the fall of American idealism in foreign policy and the upending of the post-World War II consensus that Communism should be opposed worldwide.
Daniel Ellsberg, the government analyst and whistleblower who leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971, has died at 92. Ellsberg had announced in February that he was terminally ill with pancreatic
Daniel Ellsberg, the history-making whistleblower who leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971, has died.
Daniel Ellsberg, the history-making whistleblower who by leaking the Pentagon Papers revealed longtime government doubts and deceit about the Vietnam War and inspired acts of retaliation by President Richard Nixon that helped lead to his resignation, has died.