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Daniel Ellsberg, best known for leaking sensitive Vietnam War documents known as the Pentagon Papers, talks about his career and his fight against the proliferation of nuclear weapons. Many …

Progressive activists, including Democracy Now! Executive Producer Amy Goodman and activist Noam Chomsky, called for President Biden to drop the charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assa…

The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum convened political and intelligence experts to revisit the October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis on the 60th anniversary of the confrontation …

Daniel Ellsberg talked about his book, Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers, published by Viking Press. Mr. Ellsberg was a Defense Department analyst in 1971 when he rele…

Noting the anniversary of the publication of the Pentagon Papers on June 13, 1971. Bob Haldeman audio diary entries, Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the documents and Historian Luke Nichter disc…

The University of Massachusetts, Amherst recently announced the acquisition of the papers of Daniel Ellsberg, which became part of their special collections library. In an event marking the …

Remembering the anniversary of the June 1971 publication of the Pentatgon papers by the New York Times with 1971 diary entries from Nixon Chief of Staff Bob Haldeman and 2001 remarks by Dani…

Daniel Ellsberg talked about his experiences as a nuclear war planner in the early 1960s.

Anti-Vietnam War activists reunited to discuss the 50th anniversary of the movement and the importance of peace protests in the 21st century. Participants included Daniel Ellsberg, Judith Le…

Daniel Ellsberg talked about the role of government whistleblowers. Topics included his support of Edward Snowden, his view of U.S. military operations against ISIS* militants, and the Obama…

Daniel Ellsberg talked about the reasons he chose to leak the Pentagon Papers and his opinions on the Vietnam War. While working at the RAND Corporation in 1967, Mr. Ellsberg became a consul…

Daniel Ellsberg talked about the reasons he chose to leak the Pentagon Papers and his opinions on the Vietnam War. While working at the RAND Corporation in 1967, Mr. Ellsberg became a consul…

National security whistle-blowers explained the challenges they faced when trying to expose wrongdoing or violations of the law and discussed the critical balance between civil liberties and…

In a forum on communications law, the participants discussed the question, “The Pentagon Papers Case 35 Years Later: How Would the Court Decide Today?” They gave personal recollections of d…

Following a performance of the play Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers, Victor Navasky moderated a discussion among principals of the case about the original publication of the P…

Daniel Ellsberg talked about a new documentary on his decision in 1971 to leak top-secret documents on the Vietnam War to the press. He also discussed the U.S. role in Afghanistan as Preside…

The Spy Who Tried to Stop a War: Katharine Gun and the Secret Plot to Sanction the Iraq Invasion is the story of a British intelligence employee Katharine Gun, who leaked documents to the Br…

ABA Annual Conference - American Press in Times of War

The Discovery Channel hosted a panel discussion on their series titled Watergate. The panel consisted of several people who were directly involved in the scandal or the investigation into it…

Ann Wright, co-author of Dissent: Voices of Conscience: Government Insiders Speak Out Against the War in Iraq, was joined by Daniel Ellsberg, who wrote the introduction to the book. They tal…