Snowden Credits Ellsberg Film With Inspiring His Actions

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Watch Edward Snowden give credit to Daniel Ellsberg and “The Most Dangerous Man in America” film at an awards ceremony for Ellsberg in Germany in 2016 here.

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With Spielberg’s The Post film bringing renewed interest in Daniel Ellsberg, The Guardian published a conversation with Daniel Ellsberg and Edward Snowden, who they called “the two most famous whistleblowers in modern history”.

Wrote The Guardian: “Back when Snowden was debating whether to leak secret NSA documents, showing the scale of government mass surveillance, he found inspiration in a 2009 documentary, The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers.

Said Snowden: “While I was weighing up whether to come forward or not – and this was an agonizing process because it was certainly life-changing – I watched that documentary. Dan’s example, hearing the arguments from someone who has lived through this, it helps prepare someone to make that jump themselves.”

WATCH “MOST DANGEROUS MAN” AND GET INSPIRED TOO…
(also available on DVD)

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Snowden and Ellsberg

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