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...least four occasions, the judge presiding over Criminal Case 9373 had to admonish observers for nodding off to sleep. The United States of America v. Daniel Ellsberg, Anthony Russo Jr.. which once held out the promise of a landmark debate over the public's right to know and the Government's need to be secretive, had instead turned into a tedious minuet, pivoting for the better part of twelve weeks around the strictly legal aspects of the case. Witnesses for the prosecution testified about fingerprints on the covers of the Pentagon Papers that allegedly proved theft...
Honor. When he recovered, he admitted to−and defended−his role in Xeroxing the Pentagon Papers, which Ellsberg later gave to the press. Asked which of the 19 documents in the case he had copied, Russo shot back: "I could have Xeroxed all of them. I'm not denying anything. It's an honor to have Xeroxed the Pentagon Papers." When Prosecutor David R. Nissen asked Russo whether he was aware that access to the papers was on a strict "need to know" basis, Russo responded: "I was aware of Rand's need to know...
...involved. Until the Pentagon papers case, the Government never bothered to prosecute. That would change radically if President Nixon's proposed Criminal Code Reform Act of 1973 is passed. For the first time, disclosure of any classified material would automatically be considered a felony. Any future Daniel Ellsberg would therefore be stripped of the defense that the revealed data did not harm national security. Reporters would be liable for prosecution if they published such material. Violators would face possible penalties of a $50,000 fine and up to seven years in prison. Vast amounts of Government documents are classified...
...earlier peace, insisting that they had been a "small but vocal minority" who had leveled an "unprecedented barrage of criticism" and had been willing to "humiliate" their country. If that was the bugle call to brotherhood, it sounded a rather sour note. Perhaps Henry Kissinger and, say, Daniel Ellsberg should negotiate an intranational ceasefire...
Taluncci uses ingenious bursts of humor to maintain his pace and to make his point. In cameo appearances, Daniel Ellsberg overhears Richard Nixon telling a dirty joke about Billy Graham and something called "Checkers," after the Committee to Re-Inspect the President installs an amplifier instead of a transmitter in Ellsberg's mother's stuffed derma...