Posted on May 11, 2022
The Pentagon Papers leaker explains why the Supreme Court draft leak is a good thing
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At 91, Daniel Ellsberg is certain of many things. One of them is that unofficial leaks of government documents are fundamental to keeping a check on the most powerful operators of our society.
"Unauthorized disclosures are the lifeline of a republic," he told NPR during a phone interview from his home in Northern California.
And anyone who chooses to take on the burden of sharing such information in the public interest, "is doing this republic a very great service and helping it to remain a republic."
Ellsberg would know.
He was the person who in 1971 leaked the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times (until they were blocked by the courts from publishing the documents) then sneaked them to The Washington Post.
The study – officially called the Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force – chronicled decades of failed U.S. policy in Vietnam, and laid bare the ways in which the public was misled in how the war was conducted. Ellsberg was a national security analyst at the time and gained access to the classified documents using his top secret clearances.
At 91, Daniel Ellsberg is certain of many things. One of them is that unofficial leaks of government documents are fundamental to keeping a check on the most powerful operators of our society.
"Unauthorized disclosures are the lifeline of a republic," he told NPR during a phone interview from his home in Northern California.
And anyone who chooses to take on the burden of sharing such information in the public interest, "is doing this republic a very great service and helping it to remain a republic."
Ellsberg would know.
He was the person who in 1971 leaked the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times (until they were blocked by the courts from publishing the documents) then sneaked them to The Washington Post.
The study – officially called the Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force – chronicled decades of failed U.S. policy in Vietnam, and laid bare the ways in which the public was misled in how the war was conducted. Ellsberg was a national security analyst at the time and gained access to the classified documents using his top secret clearances.
The Pentagon Papers leaker explains why the Supreme Court draft leak is a good thing
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Violating your oath because you don’t like the direction the court is going is good? Next the left will out some one for making a joke.
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Capt Gregory Prickett
Violating what oath? Employees of the Supreme Court do not take a secrecy oath, nor was any law violated by the leak. Certainly you are not claiming that it violates an oath to protect the Constitution--that's ludicrous.
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LTC David Brown
Capt Gregory Prickett - sorry not an oath but a violation of code of conduct . Hacking and theft may be involved. https://www.khou.com/article/news/politics/supreme-court-leaker-punishment/285-c71b8245-5b7e-42b4-b8d2-ccca86522f84
Why could the Supreme Court leaker not face any punishment?
A punishment all depends on who leaked it and how they got the document.
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Capt Gregory Prickett
LTC David Brown - so this is just a dog whistle comment? To rile up the base?
Do you have any evidence that it was any of those things?
Do you have any evidence that it was any of those things?
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LTC David Brown
If it wasn’t a Supreme Court Justice then it was a violation of a code of conduct. You said “nor was any law violated by the leak”. How do you know no law was violated? Do you have knowledge?
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