of us government lies about the war in vietnam. the nixon administration was enraged. they tried to destroy daniel ellsberg. they failed. and today he is still warning the american people about the dangers of unchecked military power. but are they listening? daniel ellsberg, welcome to hardtalk. glad to be with you. it s a great pleasure to be at your home. you have lived a long and a very full life, and i guess the truth is you know that you will always be associated with one extraordinary decision you took to leak the pentagon papers. does it bother you that that is the thing that people think about you? no. well, i know that it is, but, so i ve lived with that for a long time. my intent at the time was to put out more important papers, ifelt, top secret papers on nuclear war planning and the prospects of nuclear strategy, supposedly, which i had in my safe, top secret safe at rand, and i copied them at the same time. and there s a friend of mine who went to prison and w
about the war in vietnam. the nixon administration was enraged. they tried to destroy daniel ellsberg. they failed. and today he is still warning the american people about the dangers of unchecked military power. but are they listening? daniel ellsberg, welcome to hardtalk. glad to be with you. it s a great pleasure to be at your home. you have lived a long and a very full life, and i guess the truth is you know that you will always be associated with one extraordinary decision you took to leak the pentagon papers. does it bother you that that is the thing that people think about you? no. well, i know that it is, but, so i ve lived with that for a long time. my intent at the time was to put out more important papers, ifelt, top secret papers on nuclear war planning and the prospects of nuclear strategy, supposedly, which i had in my safe, top secret safe at rand, and i copied them at the same time. and there s a friend of mine who went to prison and was a model for me, rea
no. well, i know that it is, but, so i ve lived with that for a long time. my intent at the time was to put out more important papers, ifelt, top secret papers on nuclear war planning and the prospects of nuclear strategy, supposedly, which i had in my safe, top secret safe at rand, and i copied them at the same time. and there s a friend of mine who went to prison and was a model for me, really, randy keeler. mm. ..told me at the time he was one of the very few people i told i was going to do this and he said, there s enough known about vietnam now in 69, we have that. you should put out these nuclear papers. they re the ones that matter. to try to reduce the chance of there actually being carried out a nuclear war. and i said, well, that s true. they are more important. but vietnam is where the bombs are falling right now, and i have to do what i can to shorten that. and you released this trove of documents which actually
people think about you? no. well, i know that it is, but, so i ve lived with that for a long time. my intent at the time was to put out more important papers, ifelt, top secret papers on nuclear war planning and the prospects of nuclear strategy, supposedly, which i had in my safe, top secret safe at rand, and i copied them at the same time. and there s a friend of mine who went to prison and was a model for me, really, randy keeler. mm. ..told me at the time he was one of the very few people i told i was going to do this and he said, there s enough known about vietnam now in 69, we have that. you should put out these nuclear papers. they re the ones that matter. to try to reduce the chance of there actually being carried out a nuclear war. and i said, well, that s true. they are more important. but vietnam is where the bombs are falling right now, and i have to do what i can to shorten that.