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Daniel Ellsberg, Who Leaked the Pentagon Papers, Is Dead at 92
The New York Times ^ | June 17, 2023 | Robert D. McFadden

Posted on 06/16/2023 12:29:02 PM PDT by nwrep

Deeply disturbed by the accounting of American deceit in Vietnam, he approached The New York Times. The disclosures that followed rocked the nation.

Daniel Ellsberg, a military analyst who after experiencing a sobbing antiwar epiphany on a bathroom floor made the momentous decision in 1971 to disclose a secret history of American lies and deceit in Vietnam, what came to be known as the Pentagon Papers, died on Friday at his home in Kensington, Calif. He was 92.

The cause was pancreatic cancer, his wife and children said in a statement.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Government; US: California
KEYWORDS: danielellsberg; ellsberg; ellsbergobit; joewilson; nigerflap; pentagonpapers; robertdmcfadden; robertmcfadden; ttc; vietnam; vietnamwar; vips
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To: jdt1138

At least Vietnam eventually figured out that Communism was BS.


41 posted on 06/16/2023 2:04:14 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Bookshelf; Michael.SF.

See post 9. Similar thought.


42 posted on 06/16/2023 2:05:29 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd ( )
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To: dfwgator

At least Vietnam eventually figured out that Communism was BS.

***********

Most people, nations, & businesses eventually do.

Communism is a heresy against the way any civilization should operate & organize itself.


43 posted on 06/16/2023 2:13:15 PM PDT by unclebankster ( Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel)
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To: Regulator
I attended college in california and met a lot of people from SE Asia. Their summary of "life back home" after the commies took over is sad.

The American GI is all that stood between those people and outer darkness. And when we left, tens of millions died. Even including Laos and Cambodia.

People ignore that reality.

44 posted on 06/16/2023 2:20:51 PM PDT by LouAvul (Daniel 4:17: "..the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever He will.." )
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To: LouAvul

I do think that when the Vietnamese army liberated Cambodia from Pol Pot, they began to understand how wrong the doctrine was, and within a few years pretty much abandoned hard-core Marxist-Leninism. Yes Vietnam is still autocratic, but really it’s not much different than say, Singapore.


45 posted on 06/16/2023 2:22:23 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: nwrep; lightman

Memory Eternal.


46 posted on 06/16/2023 2:40:36 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Honorary Serb

Vecchnaya Pamjat

Eonia imnimi,


47 posted on 06/16/2023 2:42:17 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trintarian. Deal with it!)
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To: unclebankster

Aren’t they still socialist/communist??


48 posted on 06/16/2023 2:43:45 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: ealgeone

Only in name.


49 posted on 06/16/2023 2:44:03 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dragnet2
"And decades later we now know those in government are STILL lying about everything..."
50 posted on 06/16/2023 2:49:41 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: nwrep

He and Fonda should have been tried for espionage....traitors both.


51 posted on 06/16/2023 2:49:44 PM PDT by ealgeone
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To: Chainmail
Oh do pound sand, twerp - we kicked NVA/VC butt - without any help from you, I would guess.

Yep. The VC was almost totally destroyed during the Tet Offensive. But TV showed the embassy almost being overrun, and all the casualties in Hue. The propaganda war was lost. And all those useful idiots here at home.... And in the long run we got the boat people fleeing and ultimately the slaughter in Cambodia.

52 posted on 06/16/2023 2:55:46 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man.)
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To: Michael.SF.

In the Oval Office and in the majority Democrat Legislative branch.


53 posted on 06/16/2023 3:23:25 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: roving

“God gives some people some extra time to come around.”
I never thought of it that way.
I pray it worked in his case.
But I doubt it.


54 posted on 06/16/2023 3:37:13 PM PDT by rellic
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To: nwrep

Burn in hell you commie bitch!


55 posted on 06/16/2023 3:38:39 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The southern invasion has been a big success. Foreigner invaders are running the government now.)
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To: unclebankster

Well, thank you - all anyone has to is hint, lightly, that we lost our war and/or our motives were anything but the very best, I’m like a bull going after the idiots waving the red flag!

I am permanently at war with the draft-dodger wing of our freerepublic.


56 posted on 06/16/2023 3:45:05 PM PDT by Chainmail (How do I feel about ignorance and apathy? I don't know and I don't care.)
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To: Carriage Hill

Corruption in government today is worse than anybody has ever seen...And thanks in big part to Trump exposing it.


57 posted on 06/16/2023 4:09:20 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: dragnet2

“Corruption in government today is worse than anybody has ever seen...”

It’s certainly more visible/pervasive than it’s ever been, thanks to POTUS45.


58 posted on 06/16/2023 4:37:19 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: LouAvul

I was working at Xerox at the time.

Xerox was looking for a traitor...


59 posted on 06/16/2023 4:47:56 PM PDT by Does so ( 🇺🇦...................."Who is Ray Epps?" should be overstamped on every piece of currency.)
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To: nwrep

Say what you will about Ellsberg but Nixon and LBJ were worthless scum-sucking criminals. The blood of millions is on their hands.


60 posted on 06/16/2023 4:57:34 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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