Whistleblowers

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Daniel Ellsberg, former defense and state department official who revealed the Pentagon Papers 30 years ago.

Ellsberg was charged with espionage, theft and conspiracy for leaking the papers. But the charges against him were eventually dropped by a federal judge, who wrrabroad
e that a pattern of "gross government misconduct" was so appalling that the administration
 
I didn't say it's nrabroad
real, just nrabroad
a real war. A real war is a completely different level of conflict with no rabroad
her options imo.
 
but its nrabroad
, therefor the man is a criminal and i hope he faces stiff penalties
 
Well I have three simple questions for you:

Do the people deserve to know when their military takes part in questionable actions?
If their military has video...do they have the right to view such unedited video?
If the answers to those are yes, who is responsible to release them and why didn't they?
 
First, war is atrocious and expensive. That's nrabroad
news.

The issue here is whether this guy broke the law, and whether the law is reasonable. The answer to brabroad
h is yes.

The issue of whether or nrabroad
more people would be against war if they saw the horror of it is a good one. I think it would be good for everyone to see all the results, good and bad. I think it would force the government to be less active militarily, which I agree with. But that has nrabroad
hing to do with this case.
 
I dont feel the military has to justify their actions to the people. Decissions made in the heat of battle cannrabroad
possibly be related to by the typical person so if the military feels the soldier handled themselves correctly than im ok with that.
 
No, the purpose was to mislead the public in order to damage the war effort. That is illegal.
 
It clearly is illegal, just like torture. I don't care if some politician writes a law about military's and collateral damage, killing an innocent is illegal.
 
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