Forty-one years ago, Beacon Press lost a Supreme Court case brought against it by the U.S. government for publishing the first full edition of the Pentagon Papers. It is now well known how The New York Times first published excerpts of the top-secret documents in June 1971, but less well known is how the Beacon Press, a small nonprofit publisher affiliated with the Unitarian Universalist Association, came to publish the complete 7,000 pages that exposed the true history of U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
July, 2013
Posted on Jul 25, 2013 by max
How the Pentagon Papers Came to be Published By the Beacon Press Told by Daniel Ellsberg & Others
Posted on Jul 24, 2013 by max
Daniel Ellsberg Still Fighting Mad at 82
The Pentagon Papers, which started the chain of events that brought down Nixon, had slipped to the back of my mind, and the man who leaked them, Daniel Ellsberg, had slipped right along with it. I couldn’t have said for sure that he was still alive until he started popping up and mouthing off as part of the Edward Snowden fiasco.
So I tracked him down to the place where he has lived for 35 years in the hills of Kensington, up above Berkeley, and sat down at his kitchen table to hear him spew venom . To read more, click here
Posted on Jul 11, 2013 by max
Ellsberg Op-Ed: Snowden made the right call when he fled the U.S.
Daniel Ellsberg’s Op-Ed in the Washington Post
Snowden made the right call when he fled the U.S.
Many people compare Edward Snowden to me unfavorably for leaving the country and seeking asylum, rather than facing trial as I did. I don’t agree. The country I stayed in was a different America, a long tim
