Daniel Ellsberg, a former military analyst and anti-war activist whose disclosure of the so-called Pentagon Papers revealed systemic US government deception about the Vietnam War, has died, his family ...

To the editor: I am grateful to The Times for Elaine Woo’s detailed obituary on Daniel Ellsberg. I was in graduate school when the Pentagon Papers came out in 1971 and had the opportunity to spend a ...

This is viewer supported news. Please do your part today. Daniel Ellsberg, the nation’s most famous whistleblower, died today at the age of 92. He was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in February.

Before Edward Snowden and Julian Assange, there was Daniel Ellsberg. The prototypical modern whistleblower, Ellsberg barreled into history in 1971, when he leaked the highly classified history of ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Daniel Ellsberg, the history-making whistleblower who by leaking the Pentagon Papers revealed longtime government doubts and deceit about the Vietnam War and inspired acts of ...

He took part in White House machinations to stop leaks of classified information by overseeing an investigative unit that resorted to burglary. He then cooperated with Watergate investigators. By ...

Richard Nixon’s criticism of Ellsberg, a Christian Scientist: “He’s a Jew. You know, and he’s an arrogant intellectual.” (JTA) — Daniel Ellsberg, the military analyst whose leak of the classified ...

Daniel Ellsberg faces a battery of microphones at a news conference in Cambridge on Thursday, July 1, 1971. (AP Photo) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive ...

Over the past 50 years Daniel Ellsberg remained an antiwar and anti-nuclear activist who inspired a new generation of whistleblowers. In his last interview with Democracy Now! in April, he spoke about ...

Paul Jay, at work on ‘How to Stop a Nuclear War,’ a documentary based on Ellsberg’s book, tells THR about Streisand throwing a party to crucially fund the whistleblower’s legal defense fund and keep ...