Whistleblowers Ellsberg, Gun Call for Massive Leaks on Iran

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http://www.accuracy.org/newsrelease.php?articleId=1353&pf=yes

KATHARINE GUN
Shortly before the U.S./U.K. invasion of Iraq, in early 2003, Gun was a British government employee when she leaked a U.S. intelligence memo indicating that the U.S. had mounted a spying "surge" against delegations on the U.N. Security Council in an effort to win approval for an invasion of Iraq. President Bush continues to claim, as he claimed then, that "We are doing everything we can to avoid war in Iraq." (March 8, 2003).

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DANIEL ELLSBERG
After Ellsberg revealed the Pentagon Papers -- top-secret government documents which showed a pattern of governmental deceit about the Vietnam War -- in 1971, the Nixon White House indicted him for a possible 115-year sentence, used the White House "plumbers" to burglarize his doctor's office, conducted warrentless wiretaps against him and attempted to physically assault him at a Capitol Hill rally.

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Ellsberg said today: "Many officials are asking themselves: 'How much can I put out without being found out?' They should consider going beyond that and think of what they could achieve by massive disclosure that would sacrifice their clearance and career -- but save many lives."

Ellsberg emphasized that "What is needed is not leaking operational war plans, but rather the full internal controversy, the secret estimates of costs and prospects and dangers of war and nuclear 'options' -- the Pentagon Papers of the Middle East."

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1. Stir the fire folks--send to ALL congresscritters-dem and repug alike.