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librechik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-10 11:48 AM
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Poll question: Well, DUers, at this late date, what do you think of Ellsberg's release of the Pentagon Papers?
Edited on Mon Nov-29-10 12:02 PM by librechik


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NightWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-10 11:51 AM
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1. Exposing wrongdoing of Nixon Admin, or Bush, or repub.....Great! Exposing Obama Admin- BAD!
havent you been paying attention?
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librechik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-10 12:01 PM
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2. yup--that is so true, for some reason.
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HereSince1628 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-10 12:23 PM
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6. Weren't the pentagon papers largely about the Johnson admin?
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dixiegrrrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-10 01:29 PM
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7. Much more than that.
The Pentagon Papers, officially titled United States–Vietnam Relations, 1945–1967: A Study Prepared by the Department of Defense, was a top-secret United States Department of Defense history of the United States' political-military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967.

The papers were first brought to the attention of the public on the front page of the New York Times in 1971.

A 1996 article in the New York Times said that the Pentagon Papers "demonstrated, among other things, that the Johnson Administration had systematically lied, not only to the public but also to Congress, about a subject of transcendent national interest and significance".

Read all about it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pentagon_Papers

I still have my copy of the book/papers that was published.
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L0oniX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-10 12:04 PM
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3. I see we already have 4 assholes voting for violence.
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haikugal Donating Member (476 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-10 12:04 PM
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4. He was and IS a Hero and Patriot
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librechik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-10 12:13 PM
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5. my opinion too
Edited on Mon Nov-29-10 12:13 PM by librechik
and he took a lot more heat than Assange has, so far. Wikileaks material is nowhere near as damaging as what the NYT published from Ellsberg.
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-10 01:39 PM
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8. An American hero. Nt
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goforit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-29-10 01:41 PM
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9. YES!!!
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