Opinion | The Pentagon Papers, again WashTimesOpEd
Are American boys using American military hardware to shoot American ammunition at Russian boys? In a word, yes.Daniel Ellsberg was a civilian employee of the Pentagon in the 1970s who secretly copied about 7,000 pages of classified documents concerning the war in Vietnam and handed the documents to reporters for The New York Times and The Washington Post.
In the famous Pentagon Papers case, the court ruled in favor of the media. It held that matters material to the public interest — especially matters pertaining to the, particularly matters about war — can be published with impunity, no matter how the materials came into the possession of the media. The documents that Mr. Ellsberg revealed showed that American generals and President Lyndon B. Johnson had been lying to the public about the war. The Supreme Court’s decision was a complete exoneration for the media, but what about Messrs. Ellsberg and Snowden? And what about Chelsea Manning , who stole the materials that Mr. Assange revealed?. Mr. Ellsberg and Manning were prosecuted for espionage — failure to retain secrets reposed to them for safekeeping. The case against Mr.
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