[lbo-talk] On Wikileaks

[Chuck Munson]

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
> The Pentagon Papers had a context, a very large and militant anti-war
> movement. There is no   evidence that they _directly_ changed anyone's mind;
> they gave some added vigor to the movement, and they _may_ have shifted  the
> perspective of some of those who were already marginally active. They did
> nothing by themselves.

Let's not forget that Richard Nixon's obsession with Daniel Ellsberg
led him to increase the domestic spying operations which led to
Watergate and his eventual downfall.

Chuck