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1. 0:00Daniel Ellsberg Pentagon Papers whistle
2. 0:03blower dice aged banave Daniel Ellsberg
3. 0:06The Whistleblower who exposed the extent
4. 0:08of us involvement in the Vietnam War has
5. 0:11died EBS banave he died at his home in
6. 0:14Essington California of pancreatic
7. 0:17cancer his family said the formulas
8. 0:20military analyst is
9. 0:22Pentagon Papers leak led to him being
10. 0:25dubbed the most dangerous man in America
11. 0:27it led to a Supreme Court case as the
12. 0:31Nixon Administration tried to block
13. 0:33publication in the New York Times but as
14. 0:37pyramid charges against elsburg were
15. 0:39ultimately dismissed Daniel was a seeker
16. 0:42of Truth and a patriotic truth teller an
17. 0:45anti-war activist a beloved husband for
18. 0:48the grandfather and great grandfather a
19. 0:51dear friend too many and an inspiration
20. 0:53to countless more he will be dearly
21. 0:56missed by all of us elsburg guest family
22. 0:59said in a statement obtained by NPR for
23. 1:03decades elseberg was a tireless critical
24. 1:06government overreach and Military
25. 1:08interventions his opposition crystal is
26. 1:11during the only so start as when he had
27. 1:14reached the White House on nuclear
28. 1:16strategy and assist the Vietnam War for
29. 1:19the Department of Defense what else Berg
30. 1:21learned during that period weighed
31. 1:23heavily on his conscience if only the
32. 1:27public knew he thought political
33. 1:29pressure to end the war might prove
34. 1:31irresistible the release of the Pentagon
35. 1:33papers Dash satazar government pages
36. 1:36that exposed deceptions by multiple as
37. 1:39presidents that was a product of that
38. 1:41rationale the papers contradicted the
39. 1:44government as public statements on the
40. 1:46war and that amning Revelations they
41. 1:48contained helped bring and then to the
42. 1:50conflict and ultimately sowed the seats
43. 1:53of President Richard M Nixon's downfall
44. 1:55elsburg was the grandfather of
45. 1:58whistleblowers the former Chief editor
46. 2:00of the Guardian newspaper Alan Russ
47. 2:02Bridger told the BBC his intervention
48. 2:06radically changed the public opinion in
49. 2:08the Vietnam War Russ Bridges said on
50. 2:10radio charts a world tonight program the
51. 2:13case against him set a precedent and
52. 2:16Noah's government has ever tried to
53. 2:18injunct a paper on grounds of National
54. 2:21Security since he said the Pentagon
55. 2:24papers treated its first amendment clash
56. 2:27between the Nixon Administration and the
57. 2:30New York Times which first published
58. 2:32stories based on the papers Dash course
59. 2:34by government officials as an activist
60. 2:37that compromised National Security thus
61. 2:41Supreme Court ruled in Feb or of the
62. 2:43freedom of the press elsburg was charged
63. 2:46in federal court in Los Angeles
64. 2:51conspiracy and other counts but before
65. 2:54the jury could reach Che verdict the
66. 2:56judge throughout the case citing serious
67. 2:58government
68. 2:59conduct including illegal wiretipping
69. 3:02the judge said that in the middle of the
70. 3:04case he had been offered the job of the
71. 3:07director by owner President Nixon's top
72. 3:09hits it also emerged that there had been
73. 3:12a government sanctioned burglary of
74. 3:14Wellsburg guest psychiatristers office
75. 3:17elsburg was born in Chicago on Saturday
76. 3:20April 19 and grew up in the suburbs of
77. 3:23Detroit Michigan before reacting the
78. 3:26Pentagon he was a Marine Corps veteran
79. 3:29with a hover doctorate who had worked
80. 3:31for the defense and state departments
81. 3:33according to Russ Bridger recent
82. 3:36whistleblowers such as Julian Assange
83. 3:39ended with Snowden were molded by
84. 3:42elsidoc he told the BBC that the
85. 3:44Pentagon papers case had prompted him to
86. 3:47think who Jets to define the national
87. 3:49interest is that the government of the
88. 3:52day or people with a conscience like
89. 3:54Daniel Ellsberg gas Berg continued his
90. 3:56quest to hold the government accountable
91. 3:59years after the Pentagon papers leak
92. 4:01during an interview in December though
93. 4:04hazar buys he told PBC hard talk that he
94. 4:07was the secret backup for the Wikileaks
95. 4:10documents league in the Wikileaks case
96. 4:13Julian assange.js organization published
97. 4:16more than satlak confidential documents
98. 4:18Vidya sent the Primitive cables provided
99. 4:21by Eva's Army intelligence analyst into
100. 4:24hazardous Ellsberg said he felt Mr a
101. 4:28saint could rely on me to find some way
102. 4:30to get it the information out in the
103. 4:33wake of a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer
104. 4:35in February in which doctors told
105. 4:39Ellsberg he had three to six months to
106. 4:41live he spent recent months reflecting
107. 4:44on the Pentagon papers and to
108. 4:46whistleblowing more broadly in
109. 4:49emotional obtained by The Washington
110. 4:51Post Ellsberg wrote when I copied the
111. 4:54Pentagon papers in unisa um
112. 4:57reason to think I would be spending the
113. 4:59the rest of my life Behind Bars it was a
114. 5:02fate I would gladly have accepted if it
115. 5:05meant fastening bent of the Vietnam War
116. 5:08unlikely as that seemed political
117. 5:10released an interview with their's Bagon
118. 5:13jajunat within it the publication asked
119. 5:16him brother whistleblowing his worth the
120. 5:18risk despite his view that it has not
121. 5:20made the government any more honest when
122. 5:23we are facing a pretty ultimate
123. 5:25catastrophic when we are on the edge of
124. 5:28blowing up the world over Premier Taiwan
125. 5:31old bag met he replete from the point of
126. 5:34a view of a civilization and the
127. 5:36survival await or 9 billion people when
128. 5:39everything is at stake can it be worth
129. 5:41even a small ones of having his moral
130. 5:44effect he said the answer eyes of course
131. 5:47you can even say it's obligatory thank
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