We’re glad to see whistleblowers like Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden bringing awareness to this critical issue! Daniel Ellsberg has been weighing in as the “grandfather of all whistleblowers.”
Daniel Ellsberg praises Edward Snowden
NSA contractor joins Ellsberg as high-profile leaker
Daniel Ellsberg On NSA Spying: ‘We’re A Turnkey Away From A Police State’
TIME’s 1971 Cover Stories on Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
Also, here’s a new 5 star review, “Still all too timely & necessary”
With several whistleblowers in the news lately, all of whom face immediate criminal charges & outraged excoriation by politicians & pundits across the board, it’s good to be reminded of history. What these young whistleblowers are doing today is precisely what Daniel Ellsberg did some 40 years ago. Both then & now, the whistleblowers were fairly conservative individuals at first, eager to be of service to their country … until they gradually became aware of the crimes being committed by their country, from shredding the Constitution to killing innocent civilians around the world.
