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Five Decades After the Pentagon Papers: Presidential Lies and Foolish Forecasts


Antiwar.com Original
Fifty years ago the Pentagon Papers exploded politically in a nation weary
of the Vietnam War. Daniel Ellsberg worked on a Defense Department study about
Washington’s involvement in Vietnam. He was so appalled with the findings that
he leaked the document to the
New York Times.
The embarrassed Nixon administration sought to block publication. Attorney
General John W. Mitchell, later imprisoned for his role in the Watergate scandal,
sent a telegram to the
Times demanding return of the materials: further
publication of information of this character will cause irreparable injury to
the defense interests of the United States. The legal battle went to the ....

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