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

Posted on June 25, 2023July 3, 2023 by Clay Jenkinson ,Leave a Comment

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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CLAY JENKINSON: The Midterm Election Of 2018

Posted on November 14, 2018November 14, 2018 by Clay Jenkinson ,Leave a Comment

So what did the midterm election of 2018 tell us? I’m going to try to make sense of it from a purely analytical view. If, as President Trump said repeatedly, he was on the ballot in 2018, the results are mixed. The election was certainly not a ringing endorsement of his character, behavior, policies and the first two years of …

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CLAY JENKINSON: Sad Lessons From the Nixon White House

Posted on June 9, 2017June 9, 2017 by Clay Jenkinson

Given where things are headed, I’m preparing the way a humanities scholar prepares. I’m reading accounts of the life and presidency of Richard M. Nixon. I’ll place a short bibliography of books worth reading at the bottom of this essay. The constitutional crisis we are now descending into is either much less grave than Watergate or much, much more serious. …