Ellsberg was neither a journalist or a patriot...
He was a Government employed Military Analyst, who copied and released to the New York Times - Confidential material. Sound familiar?
His release, strengthened the "cause" of the Leftist's objection to the war that was being WON -- leading to our "cut and run" and abandonment of allies. Sound familiar?
Subsequently many of those South Vietnamese, Laotian, Cambodian and Ethnic Hill tribes were persecuted, murdered or enslaved by the Communists we were fighting...... Contrary to the "promise" of peace from Fonda and her Marxist husband at the time.. Sound familiar?
Another thing I'll bet never registered in your "education" or "recollection" of events from those times....
The American student protests and marches against the war, ceased as soon as the Draft was eliminated....
It wasn't the war the cowards protested -- it was the possibility that THEY may be drawn in to it...
I guess they didn't mind when others were doing the fighting and dieing. Sounds familiar, doesn't it?
Ellsberg a patriot? Hell, Ellsberg wouldn't amount to a pimple on a patriot's ass.
Ellsberg was one of those that contributed to snatching defeat from the jaws of victory, and squandering the patriot dead that had died to secure that victory.
Semper Fi
Sorry you missed my sarcasm. I agree with your premise that we should be locking up journalist and executing them for treason. Especially during a time of war.