“This was not a breach of national security,” Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, The Times’s president and publisher at the time, said then. We didn’t jeopardize any American soldiers or Marines overseas.” (Mr. Sulzberger was himself a Marine who had served in World War II and the Korean War.) Advertisement Continue reading the main storyInvoking national security, his administration demanded a halt to the papers’ publication. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyThen, too, many question whether Mr. Assange is truly committed to transparency or, rather, to finding information that he can weaponize. Mr. Sulzberger, who died in 2012, attested to that in a speech that he gave in 1996, on the 25th anniversary of the release of the Pentagon Papers.

Source: New York Times March 27, 2017 00:00 UTC