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WWW Reprint of 1973 Rolling Stone Interview with Daniel Ellsberg

posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday January 03 2018, @06:24PM   Printer-friendly
from the a-rolling-stone-gathers-no-ellsberg dept.

canopic jug writes:

The Rolling Stone has run a web version of its 1973 interview with Daniel Ellsberg. Ellsberg is the former US military analyst who blew the whistle on the Nixon administration's misdeeds regarding the Vietnam War. Specfically he photocopied an extensive, secret study and gave it to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and later to The New York Times, The Washington Post, and nearly a score of other newspapers. These documents he released became known as the Pentagon Papers eventually published as excerpts and commentaries by The New York Times. Both The New York Times and The Rolling Stone have since drifted from that kind of coverage and the article provides an interesting contrast to how those publications are now.

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  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday January 03 2018, @08:13PM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Wednesday January 03 2018, @08:13PM (#617325)

    The only reason I let Washington off the hook is because he was the first President, but if you want to throw in the lies of the Continental Congress as Washington's predecessors, then the same applies to him.

    If your state is a Republic which goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy, then that's not true at all. In fact it's the opposite of true. A free and open society is fundamentally incompatible with a culture of secrecy and lies.

    Sounds good, but the reality is: Republics which go abroad in search of monsters to destroy get caught and called out on their secrets and lies more easily and more often than "free and open" societies. I can imagine (Lennon style) a free and open society, I just can't find one on this planet... some are indeed better than others at aspiring to those goals, but even the tiny island nations have their skeletons that best remain in the closet or preferably buried deeply - for the better interests of their people.

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