The large majority of the audience were not born when Dan leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971. To me, the fundamental point is that the United States achieved consensus that the Vietnam war had been a terrible mistake. An example was the Iraq War, clearly an illegal war of aggression in breach of the U.N. charter, sold on lies to the public. Lewis asked if there were names in the Pentagon Papers that would risk harm to them. Ellsberg replied he disagreed, Abrams had never had one minute of discussion with him or Assange.

Source: Ethiopian News June 24, 2023 01:50 UTC