Daniel Ellsberg
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"Daniel Ellsberg" is an activist and former United States military analyst who, while employed by the RAND Corporation, precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret The Pentagon/Pentagon study of U.S. government decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War, to The New York Times and other newspapers. He was awarded the Right Livelihood Award in 2006. He is also known for popularising part of decision theory, the Ellsberg paradox.

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The Sixties: The Years That Shaped a Generation.

If they keep arresting us without charging us, then they are doing nothing other than restricting our freedom of speech. This needs to be challenged, and if we're arrested again, we'll have a stronger case.

Don't do what I did. Don't wait until the bombs are falling in Iran. Don't wait until people are dying. Go to the press and reveal.

[LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - If you enjoyed the Kent State shootings, the lies about us winning in the Vietnam jungles,] Alice's Restaurant, ... The Sixties: The Years That Shaped a Generation.

His dismissal of all charges against Tony Russo and myself with the eloquent denunciation of government misconduct, in which he said it offends a sense of justice, gave my wife and me one of the best days of our lives.

We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right.