CLAY JENKINSON: The Future In Context — Facing The Music: Doing The Crime, Doing The Time And The Long Shadow Of The 1917 Espionage Act
When Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times in 1971, he knew three things. First, he was breaking federal law. Second, he was very likely to go to prison. And third, he was willing to spend much of the rest of his life in a federal penitentiary as the personal “cost” of ending the disastrous war in Vietnam. In the …