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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Who is he? 😂
This comment truly evidences the pathetic state of awareness, the distorted values and priorities that are prevalent in society. I hope it’s sarcasm.
Mr.CHEN.. He Was A Whistleblower That Leaked Extraordinary Negative and Damaging True Evidence To The Press About WRONG Doing in The Pentagon, Gvmt, and individuals in Differents Areas and Topics…Vietnam, (Great Example) The Strait Of Tomkin, a Deceaving Red Flag. To Have an Excuse To Attack The Viet-Com…👉🏿Go Check That Part in The Vietnam War. (The Strait Of Tomkin)Etc, Etc. Plus Corruption, The Military industrial Complex, i Was a Baby
When Happens But i Read a Little Bit
in P.R.
Watch the video. They tell you who he is.🙄
An American Hero
Daniel Ellsberg was an American Hero. Hopefully, some day, he will be recognized as such and have statues and tributes made for him.
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 The Pentagon Papers were merely a historical document.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.
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.
Journalism may never recover.
If he lived today he’d be an enemy of the state…
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.
We will never forget the Gulf of Tonkin psyop
I wish that were true. If it were ppl would see all the same tactics being used today in half a dozen different war zones
Welp apparently only jews are allowed to leak information to the press.
Name a more privileged group of people…
A life well spent. A true American hero who did the right thing at the right time.
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.
Another rip bozo
A real hero. No such thing as real journalism anymore, only propaganda.
RIP Mr Ellsberg.
People like him make America great, not Trump nor Biden.
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.