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...Ellsberg Speaks At K-School Forum...
...obligation to expose government wrongdoing should always supersede classified information laws, Daniel Ellsberg '52 told an audience of 150 at the Kennedy School yesterday...
...Whatever the state of the law is, even if the Constitution is reamended and the First Amendment gutted, it doesn't give anyone the right, or obligation, to keep U.S. operations secret," Ellsberg said...
...Ellsberg said that the conflict between his job as a defense adviser and his shock at military plans had surfaced several times before, particularly upon learning that America's nuclear strike strategy was projected to cause 600 million deaths worldwide...
...home, an unlikely assortment of public figures gathered in Arlington National Cemetery to pay their final respects to a man very few Americans had ever heard of. Secretary of State William Rogers, Senator Edward Kennedy and conservative columnist Joseph Alsop were there, as were General William Westmoreland and Daniel Ellsberg, who was about to stand trial for leaking the Pentagon papers. They had come to mourn John Paul Vann, one of the nation's proconsuls in Viet Nam, who had died in a helicopter crash. "In this war without heroes," writes Neil Sheehan at the beginning of his engrossing...