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Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers, asks: Who will be the next Snowden?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/daniel-ellsberg-who-leaked-the-pentagon-papers-asks-who-will-be-the-next-snowden/2017/02/26/a35ba940-f87c-11e6-be05-1a3817ac21a5_story.html
Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers, asks: Who will be the next Snowden?
By Margaret Sullivan Media Columnist February 26 at 4:00 PM
The most dangerous man in America is asking to borrow my scarf.
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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. That was clear on a Georgetown University stage earlier this month, shortly after the scarf encounter.
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Ellsberg said that “the things that were crimes under Nixon are no longer crimes,” after post-9/11 Patriot Act legislation.
“Even killing people is something Obama has proclaimed the right to do,” he said, referring to Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen and radical Islamic cleric assassinated by a CIA drone strike in Yemen.
Ellsberg thinks Trump — whose associates are already under FBI investigation for Russian connections — will avoid Nixon’s fate.
“If he were facing a Democratic Congress, he’d be in great trouble. If he were facing a Republican Congress that had any principle, any conscience, any shame .?.?. but he doesn’t have that,” Ellsberg said. “It won’t be a problem. And I’m sorry to say that.”
<snip>
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.
Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers, asks: Who will be the next Snowden?
By Margaret Sullivan Media Columnist February 26 at 4:00 PM
The most dangerous man in America is asking to borrow my scarf.
<snip>
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. That was clear on a Georgetown University stage earlier this month, shortly after the scarf encounter.
<snip>
Ellsberg said that “the things that were crimes under Nixon are no longer crimes,” after post-9/11 Patriot Act legislation.
“Even killing people is something Obama has proclaimed the right to do,” he said, referring to Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen and radical Islamic cleric assassinated by a CIA drone strike in Yemen.
Ellsberg thinks Trump — whose associates are already under FBI investigation for Russian connections — will avoid Nixon’s fate.
“If he were facing a Democratic Congress, he’d be in great trouble. If he were facing a Republican Congress that had any principle, any conscience, any shame .?.?. but he doesn’t have that,” Ellsberg said. “It won’t be a problem. And I’m sorry to say that.”
<snip>
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.
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