Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2021 6:09:33 GMT -8
So last night I had a dream of a book that has a green cover and a person on it. I saw the words Liberty and Justice, Dare to tell the truth.
When I woke up, I researched to see if there is a book with those words on it and there is. It also has a green cover with a man on it.
The book is about Daniel Ellsberg, a man I never heard of before.
Gonna buy the book now and read it. I think I am tapping into this kind of information from being on this forum. Any one here ever hear of him before?
Daniel Ellsberg was a Rand Corporation employee at the time of the Pentagon Papers. He had worked for the Departments of Defense and State and spent two years in Vietnam as a government employee. He worked on the confidential Defense Department report on the conduct of the war in Vietnam. The study consisted of 3,000 pages of historical analysis and 4,000 pages of original government documents in 47 volumes, and was classified as “Top Secret – Sensitive.” Ellsberg offered the papers first to the New York Times and later to the Washington Post and other papers because he believed Americans were not being told the truth about the war. Ellsberg made several copies of the 7000-page report on a photocopier. Night after night, he stood at a photocopier in an empty office and shoveled pages through and carted them out in boxes.
The case resulted in a landmark Supreme Court decision, after the Nixon administration tried to keep the papers from being published. The court ordered that publication could not be stopped. The decision stands as a major point in press freedom.
Ellsberg was charged under the Espionage Act of 1917 along with other charges of theft and conspiracy (which would have had a total maximum sentence of 115 years in prison). But because of government misconduct and illegal evidence-gathering, the judge dismissed all charges against Ellsberg.
Daniel Ellsberg was a Rand Corporation employee at the time of the Pentagon Papers. He had worked for the Departments of Defense and State and spent two years in Vietnam as a government employee. He worked on the confidential Defense Department report on the conduct of the war in Vietnam. The study consisted of 3,000 pages of historical analysis and 4,000 pages of original government documents in 47 volumes, and was classified as “Top Secret – Sensitive.” Ellsberg offered the papers first to the New York Times and later to the Washington Post and other papers because he believed Americans were not being told the truth about the war. Ellsberg made several copies of the 7000-page report on a photocopier. Night after night, he stood at a photocopier in an empty office and shoveled pages through and carted them out in boxes.
The case resulted in a landmark Supreme Court decision, after the Nixon administration tried to keep the papers from being published. The court ordered that publication could not be stopped. The decision stands as a major point in press freedom.
Ellsberg was charged under the Espionage Act of 1917 along with other charges of theft and conspiracy (which would have had a total maximum sentence of 115 years in prison). But because of government misconduct and illegal evidence-gathering, the judge dismissed all charges against Ellsberg.