OPINION

Assange hearing takes cues from Pentagon Papers

News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 26/02/2020

» The cost of being a whistle-blower is going up. When Daniel Ellsberg stole and published the Pentagon Papers in 1971, revealing the monstrous lies that the US government was telling the American public about the Vietnam war, he was arrested and tried, but the court set him free.