[SF Republican]

Dan as in Daniel Elsberg? wow

[Red Badger]

One in the same.....He STILL needs a psychiatrist!.....

[piasa]

1971 : (LEAKS/SECURITY BREACHES : ELLSBERG TURNS STOLEN PENTAGON PAPERS OVER TO THE NY TIMES) In 1971, in what the historian William Manchester described as "perhaps the most extraordinary leak of classified documents in the history of governments," Daniel Ellsberg turned over to The New York Times a huge study of U.S. involvement in Vietnam that came to be known as the Pentagon Papers. The Nixon administration tried to destroy Mr. Ellsberg. He was viciously harassed. His psychiatrist's office was burglarized. And he was charged with treason, theft and conspiracy.
The prosecution was not successful. The charges were thrown out due to government misconduct.--------------- "Spying at the UN," by BOB HERBERT, New York Times, January 19, 2004