Daniel Ellsberg was perhaps the first highly placed official (at one time the deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense) to have ever left the inner government and then reveal, with top-secret documents, its closely guarded secret operations. As befits a man who risks his reputation and ruin, to fight a corrupt and unlawful government, he is vain, egocentric and completely convinced of the lightness of his action.
It is a grandiose attitude – one that seems to have especially offended the press. It supposes the power of truth, of the man who speaks it,...
It is a grandiose attitude – one that seems to have especially offended the press. It supposes the power of truth, of the man who speaks it,...
- 11/8/1973
- by Jann S. Wenner
- Rollingstone.com
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