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Daniel Ellsberg, Edward Snowden, and the Modern Whistle-Blower
In the summer of 1967, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara commissioned a group of thirty-six scholars to write a secret history of the Vietnam War. The project took a year and a half, ran to seven thousand pages, and filled forty-seven volumes. Only a handful of copies were made, and most were kept under lock and key in and around the Beltway. One set, however, ended up at the rand Corporation, in Santa Monica, where it was read, from start to finish, by a young analyst there named Daniel Ellsberg.
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I forgot that Snowden had found long-term asylum in Russia. It should be interesting to see if Trump tries to make an arrangement to have him extradited to the United States. I can imagine that hackers are itching to take down the Trump administration and Snowden is their poster-child.