Daniel Ellsberg

He really put his ass on the line with the Pentagon Papers. So did Katharine Graham. True patriots who understood the Constitution.

He's aging well. That's nice to see.

http://www.kcpw.org/article/6061

at the bottom of the article.

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Ellsberg got the papers out of the RAND Corp.

Gravel got them read into the Congressional record.

Must also mention Maj. John M. Newman for filling in the blanks created during the JFK administration.

I thought that was you!..... thanks.

'A Coup Has Occurred'

By Daniel Ellsberg
September 26, 2007 (Text of a speech delivered September 20, 2007)

Editor’s Note: Daniel Ellsberg, the former Defense Department analyst who leaked the secret Pentagon Papers history of the Vietnam War, offered insights into the looming war with Iran and the loss of liberty in the United States at an American University symposium on Sept. 20.

Below is an edited transcript of Ellsberg’s remarkable speech: http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/092607a.html

I think nothing has higher priority than averting an attack on Iran, which I think will be accompanied by a further change in our way of governing here that in effect will convert us into what I would call a police state.

If there’s another 9/11 under this regime … it means that they switch on full extent all the apparatus of a police state that has been patiently constructed, largely secretly at first but eventually leaked out and known and accepted by the Democratic people in Congress, by the Republicans and so forth.

Will there be anything left for NSA to increase its surveillance of us? … They may be to the limit of their technical capability now, or they may not. But if they’re not now they will be after another 9/11.

And I would say after the Iranian retaliation to an American attack on Iran, you will then see an increased attack on Iran – an escalation – which will be also accompanied by a total suppression of dissent in this country, including detention camps.

more: http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/092607a.html

I could get lost in those eyes.

-Hoot

:blush: Thanks!

Thank you for sharing that!

political heroes:

My mother and Ellsberg:

That is the type of picture that will always remind you of what is important in life. It's a really powerful, positive photograph, and it brings a smile to my face just looking at it.

Keep fighting the Good Fight, and again -- thank you for sharing these photos with us.

http://www.mostdangerousman.org/

(She produced a directed The Good War and Those Who Refused to Fight It, which was on PBS a couple years ago -- http://www.pbs.org/itvs/thegoodwar)

Great pic.:thumbsup: