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Nancy Altman on GOP Social Security Attack, Daniel Ellsberg Revisited

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Nixon's Injunction on the Pentagon Papers

When the Pentagon Papers came out on June 13, 1971, I was still in the process of trying to encourage Senator Gravel or before him. My advice right now for people who feel that we're heading toward an abyss is: Don't wait until it's too late. In 2005, counterspin Steve Rendold talked to Ellsberg about Israeli whistleblower Mordecai Vanuenu. To the extent that sources can be punished as was attempted in my case, or which VanUenu experienced here, obviously the intent of that is to close down information from people not authorized to give it. Otherwise you're left with handouts and an account of government decision making that is simply what

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