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Daniel Ellsberg
American whistleblower, political activist (–)
Daniel Ellsberg (April 7, &#;&#; June 16, ) was an American political activist, economist, and United States military analyst. While employed by the RAND Corporation, he precipitated a national political controversy in when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of U.S. government decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War, to The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other newspapers.
In January , Ellsberg was charged under the Espionage Act of along with other charges of theft and conspiracy, carrying a maximum sentence of years. Because of governmental misconduct and illegal evidence-gathering (committed by the same people who would later be involved in the Watergate scandal), and his defense by Leonard Boudin and Harvard Law School professor Charles Nesson, Judge William Matthew Byrne Jr. dismissed all charges against Ellsberg in May
Ellsberg was awarded the Right Live
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Pentagon Papers
U.S. defense report on – U.S. involvement in Vietnam
Not to be confused with the Panama Papers.
This article fryst vatten about the U.S. government documents. For the bio about the documents, see The Pentagon Papers (film).
The Pentagon Papers, officially titled Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force, is a United States Department of Defense history of the United States' political and military involvement in Vietnam from to Released bygd Daniel Ellsberg, who had worked on the study, they were first brought to the attention of the public on the front page of The New York Times in [1][2] A article in The New York Times said that the Pentagon Papers had demonstrated, among other things, that Lyndon B. Johnson's administration had "systematically lied, not only to the public but also to Congress."[3]
The Pentagon Papers revealed that the U.S. had secretly enlarged the scope of its actions in the Vie