Daniel Ellsberg, leaker of the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times in 1971.
Nixon believed that an Ellsberg conspiracy was being run out of the Brookings Institute.
Ellsberg notes that there have been five prosecutions on release of state secrets during the Obama Administration.
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Both in photocopying the documents and in transferring them to The New York Times, Ellsberg committed serious criminal offenses.
Ellsberg says there has been some discussion that implies the Pentagon Papers leak was good but that WikiLeaks is bad.
Nixon wanted to use the media to "destroy" the leaker of the papers, Daniel Ellsberg, a former Defense Department official.
The movie inadvertently suggests that, without considerable vanity and a touch of grandiosity, Ellsberg might never have acted as bravely as he did.
Ellsberg adds that there is no U.S. law that would criminalize what Assange did that would not also apply to the New York Times.
Zittrain says Ellsberg said he is against a state secrets act, but does not say that there is no information that should be secret.
Ellsberg, a former military analyst, has said Manning's disclosures may be more significant than his own leak of a top-secret history of the Vietnam War expansion in 1971.
At one of its major 2008 conferences, for instance, the ACLU invited Daniel Ellsberg, the former Rand Corporation official who leaked the top secret Pentagon Papers regarding US involvement in Vietnam to The New York Times in 1971 to serve as it keynote speaker.
The grand jury that has convened in Alexandria, Virginia to decide whether Assange will be indicted in the U.S. has yet to make public any charges against him, but some have speculated on and called for his indictment under the same Espionage Act once used to prosecute Daniel Ellsberg for leaking the Pentagon Papers.
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