Daniel Ellsberg Blazed the Path for Manning & Snowden | Mickey Z.

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Mickey Z. -- World News Trust

June 11, 2013

"The Pentagon Papers are mesmerizing, not as documentation of the history of the U.S. war in Indochina, but as insight into the minds of the men who planned and executed it."

- Arundhati Roy

June 13, 2013 marks 42 years since the New York Times published an article by Neil Sheehan called, "Vietnam Archive: Pentagon Study Traces 3 Decades of Growing U.S. Involvement."

It was the first installment of a 7,000-page document that came to be known as the "Pentagon Papers." How important was the public airing of a secret government study of decision-making about the Vietnam War? None other than Henry Kissinger labeled the man who leaked that study -- Daniel Ellsberg -- "the most dangerous man in America."

Author H. Bruce Franklin called Ellsberg, "That young man with boundless promise who graduated third in his Harvard class of 1,147 in 1952, when America too seemed boundlessly promising."

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1. 7000 pages (pre-computer) did anybody actuall read them? I doubt it.

It's the same with Ed Snowden, too much information.