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Daniel Ellsberg, "the most dangerous man in America"
Almost five decades after the first Pentagon Papers story was published in 1971, revealing the secret history of the Vietnam War, the 85-year-old Ellsberg still isn't done making trouble.
http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/4989453-155/margaret-sullivan-daniel-ellsberg-who-leaked?fullpage=1 [sltrib.com]
[NOTE TO EDITOR -- the "?" tag on the end gets the whole story on one page]
Ellsberg talked at Georgetown University recently and discussed a variety of topics including Snowdon and Manning. He asked rhetorically if three large leakers were enough for the past 45 years, and suggested that if he had access to the "formerly secret" Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture back when it was current, he would have leaked that himself.
Article ends with,
Ellsberg stands by what he did — just as he fully approves of Snowden and Manning because they brought light to government deception and malfeasance.
Despite the threats that such leakers will endanger national security and have "blood on their hands," he said, no such harm has been proved.
Now it's time to bring more to light.
"I would like others, like Snowden, to think about their oath to the Constitution and whether they are obeying it" by keeping silent, he said.
He offered another subversive thought:
"Manning and Snowden and I all thought the same words, which I heard them say: 'No one else was going to do it, someone had to do it — so I did it.'"
Submitter's comment -- while this article is syndicated from Washington Post, I was a little surprised to see it in the Salt Lake paper? I thought Utah was one of the die hard "red" states??
