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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

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He doesn't deny that he leaked information. That is evidence of his treason, I don't care how much the government screwed the case.

Constitution doesn't say "you are safe from prosecution for treason if the liberal media can rally around you and blame the government".