"Daniel Ellsberg, a military analyst best known for leaking American military secrets, known as the Pentagon Papers, during the Vietnam War, died Friday, his family announced in a statement on Twitter.

While working as an analyst for the RAND Corporation, Ellsberg leaked 7,000 pages of Defense Department documents to The New York Times, which published them in 1971. The documents revealed that the U.S. government had misled the American public about the scope of the Vietnam War. His death comes months after publicly announcing his pancreatic cancer diagnosis."

"Initially Ellsberg wanted to give the documents to U.S. Congress members and officials, but upon their refusal, he then leaked them to the media.

When the Pentagon Papers were published in The New York Times, then-President Richard Nixon barred the paper from publishing the documents, prompting Ellsberg to leak documents to The Washington Post. However, the U.S. Supreme Court sided with the newspapers in June 1971 in The New York Times Co. v. United States."

https://dailycaller.com/2023/06/16/pentagon-papers-leaker-daniel-ellsberg-dead-at-92/?utm_source=piano&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=breaking&pnespid=trN8DzgdMLkRgvKao267GJuKowC2Dp1mKOGlke5yv0RmTuPyikG6TAvZW5_vwtj5jkdWPllz6A

"Daniel Ellsberg died at 92 on Friday in hospice care after a battle with pancreatic cancer.

Ellsberg was considered the greatest whistleblower of certainly his generation if not in U.S. history. His decision to leak the top-secret government study of the Vietnam war to the press was clearly one of the most courageous acts in the nation’s history.

The decision by the Nixon administration’s Department of Justice to order the press to stop publishing the Pentagon Papers led to a landmark Supreme Court decision against the government’s use of prior restraint.

Then President Richard Nixon had Ellsberg charged under the Espionage Act nonetheless. Ellsberg gained his freedom only after gross prosecutorial misconduct was revealed."

https://consortiumnews.com/2023/06/16/rest-in-peace-daniel-ellsberg/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=d2944e93-6ac4-4098-a4c7-eb42f9963e5b