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CLAY JENKINSON: The Future In Context — Facing The Music: Doing The Crime, Doing The Time And The Long Shadow Of The 1917 Espionage Act

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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 …

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CLAY JENKINSON: The Future In Context — Daniel Ellsberg And The Greatest Leak Of Secret Documents In American History

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The death of Daniel Ellsberg (1931-2023) on June 16 comes at a time when America is engaged in a grim public conversation about the unauthorized disclosure of top secret and classified government documents. In June 1971, Ellsberg engineered the most important leak of secret documents in American history. He died from complications of pancreatic cancer at his home in Kensington, Calif. He was …

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