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Topic: Pentagon Papers

Daniel Ellsberg talks with newsmen as he arrives for arraignment at the courthouse here. Ellsberg is charged with violating the law by leaking the secret Pentagon papers to the news media (Getty Images/Bettmann)

Daniel Ellsberg leaves us a message

Norman Solomon
Former National Security Advisor John R. Bolton (Getty Images)

Why the last-minute push to stop Bolton?

Roger Sollenberger
Afghan security forces inspect the aftermath of Sunday's attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, July 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Afghanistan papers: reminder of Vietnam

Vijay Prashad - Independent Media Institute
(Getty/Chris Kleponis)

The "Memo": A desperate gambit

Heather Digby Parton
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Richard Nixon (Getty/Keystone)

Behind the Pentagon Papers

Ken Hughes
Richard Nixon; Robert McNamara (AP/Harvey Georges/Salon)

How the Pentagon Papers got published

James L. Greenfield
Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep in "The Post" (20th Century Fox)

See the trailer for Streep's "The Post"

Gabriel Bell
(Wikipedia)

Exposing leakers

Margot Susca - The Conversation
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Brad Friedman

Steven Rosenfeld
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