Daniel Ellsberg

Insiders know stuff they don't want us outsiders ever to."These policies are insane, if one assumes a minimum of public spiritedness. They have not worked. They will not work."But they do work in the social sense: They create successful lives for the people who devise and implement them.

On June 11th in Berlin, a new international organization was announced whose purpose is to (1) defend whistleblowers when they are facing prosecution; and (2) defend the public’s right to know.

 Bad Precedent and Bad Faith 

 
 
 by Lawrence Davidson
 
Part I – Hedges v. Obama
 

People seem to forget that back in the day, Daniel Ellsberg was widely held to be just as filthy a traitor as Edward Snowden is now."I'm not going to jump into the hero vs. not fray. I think there are important things to be said on both sides.