[lbo-talk] Ellsberg, Gravel, and West

[JOANNA A.]

I don't think there's a method; I think those were different times, and the publication of the Pentagon papers happened because of mass opposition to the war. 

Now they keep the war off TV, the army is a volunteer army of the poor, and there is far less general concern. 

But thanks for the link. 

Joanna 

----- Original Message ----- 
``Today, we hear the story from three men at the center of the storm: former 
Pentagon and RAND Corporation analyst, famed whistleblower, Daniel Ellsberg, 
who leaked the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times; former Alaskan senator 
and presidential candidate Mike Gravel, who tells the dramatic story of how 
he entered the Pentagon Papers into the congressional record and got them to 
the Beacon Press; finally, Robert West, the former president of the 
Unitarian Universalist Association.'' 

http://www.democracynow.org/2013/7/4/how_the_pentagon_papers_came_to 

It's worth listening to because it profiles the way to handle state secrets 
and hopefully win without ending up silenced forever in some dungeon. 

CG 

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