Updated / Monday, 1 Feb 2021
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Stacey Abrams is credited with boosting voter turnout in the US election
US voting rights activist and Democratic Party politician Stacey Abrams has been nominated for this year s Nobel Peace Prize for her work to promote non-violent change via the ballot box, a Norwegian lawmaker said today.
Ms Abrams, whose work was credited with boosting voter turnout last year, helping Joe Biden win the US presidency, joins a long list of nominees, including both former President Donald Trump and his son-in-law, former White House adviser Jared Kushner. Abrams work follows in Dr Martin Luther King Jr s footsteps in the fight for equality before the law and for civil rights, said Lars Haltbrekken, a Socialist Party member of Norway s parliament.
the vietnam war known as the pentagon papers. the name has come out as the possible source documents, that of daniel ellsberg. reporter: the pentagon paper showed the government mismanaged the vietnam war and lied about it. ellsberg was charged under the espionage act of 1917 with theft and conspiracy. but the charges were later dropped due to government misconduct. ellsberg s disclosures as a whistle blower are credited with helping end the war. i couldn t carele less about the punk. i wanted to discredit that kind of activity. reporter: decades later in 2013, former u.s. army soldier chelsea manning was convicted after sharing nearly 750,000 military and diplomatic documents with wikileaks related to the wars in iraq and afghanistan. i stopped seeing just statistics and information and i started seeing people. reporter: included in the leaked material, a video of iraqi civilians and journalists
case on point. if the media had nothing to do with the initial hacking or stealing and they got it in a proverbial envelope they can print that and they can broadcast that. that goes back to the pentagon paper s case. you might have a legal theory against the media entitty that first disclosure if it is not news worthy. and it is just gossip. once it is out in the public domain, on the internet and very hard to have a legal theory. and the supreme court and other courts are backed up media outlets. it is not the responsibility of the media but the honor who did the initial hacking. you probably can t get back to them.
the information released. the bought needs to be more transparent. if the government is not going to be transparent then thank you, edward snowden. he has done it in very responsible manner, frankly. i don t think he has thrown information out willy-nilly, despite all accusations made against him, false accusations made against him when he initially started releasing this information, that he was some crazy narcissist, whatever. i think this person really sacrificed his life for to reveal this information. jon: well, at same time, judy, he signed a pledge before joining the contractor and nsa, saying, signing a pledge i wouldn t release that information. absolutely. people who have been true whistle-blowers like daniel ellsberg who released pentagon paper to my old paper, the new york times. he did not go to china. he didn t go to china. he defended snowden. this is completely different environment than it rused to be. i m well aware of that. thomas drake another went through
somebody needs do a whole case study. we need a pentagon paper. we were talking about this on set in real-time in 2009, talking about tripling the number of troops. we couldn t find anybody on set that thought it was a good idea. richard holbrooke came and pretended to think it was a good idea. and other administration officials pretended to think it was a good idea. everybody knew it was a stupid thing to do. john u-said when this tops becoming an anti-terror campaign which bush did and started to become an anti-insurgency campaign, all was lost in afghanistan. and we re just spinning our wheels. listen, at least we re getting out now but at the same time we re leaving behind that s going to regress very fast and the taliban are on the rampage right now, murdering people. there was a poignant piece in the time magazine of those refugees trying to get to christmas island. they are dying in these boats