Remember Daniel Ellsberg, leaker of the Pentagon Papers?

[kentuck]

Daniel Ellsberg, (born April 7, 1931, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.), American military analyst and researcher who, in 1971, leaked portions of a classified 7,000-page report that detailed the history of U.S. intervention in Indochina from World War II until 1968. Dubbed the Pentagon Papers, the document appeared to undercut the publicly stated justification of the Vietnam War.


Ellsberg was indicted under the Espionage Act, and the charges leveled against him could have resulted in up to 115 years in prison. The trial against Ellsberg, which began in January 1973, lasted four months and concluded with the dismissal of all charges after evidence of gross governmental misconduct came to light. John D. Ehrlichman, an adviser to Pres. Richard M. Nixon, had utilized a team of “plumbers”—so named for their ability to “repair leaks” and later made famous by their role in the Watergate break-in—to burglarize the office of Ellsberg’s psychiatrist in an unsuccessful effort to uncover embarrassing or harmful material. Cleared of wrongdoing, Ellsberg devoted the rest of his life to peace activism and academia.

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Daniel-Ellsberg

[Turbineguy]

1. All of these problems were created by our reaction to Communism.

It drove the agenda since WWI.

[FSogol]

2. If you are conflating this with the Supreme Court leak, you are far off. The Supreme Court

opinion is not classified material. There is a difference between classified and private. No law was broken by the Supreme Court leak. Only tradition was broken. Tradition breaking is what the Roberts court has planned to take away rights of Americans.

[kentuck]

3. You are absolutely right!

Thanks for making the contrast.

[FelineOverlord]

4. He's still active on Twitter

Link to tweet

[kentuck]

5. Our weapons stocks have been depleted...

...and will need to be replenished.

It's going to take a lot of money and contracts to do that.