Daniel Ellsberg was so moved by Mr. Kehler’s opposition to the Vietnam War that he decided to leak documents that changed the course of the conflict. By Clay Risen Mr. Ellsberg took issue with how the ...

Daniel Ellsberg condemned government surveillance during his keynote Tuesday. Daniel Ellsberg, the former United States military analyst who famously released the Pentagon Papers to national ...

Well simply put, a whistleblower is someone who reveals information to the public that is in the public's interest. This ...

Cohen is the author of the new book Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court's 50-Year Battle for a More Unjust America Edward Snowden is being called a lot of things right now. A heroic whistle-blower.

Daniel Ellsberg (left) unleashed a political crisis when he distributed the classified Pentagon Papers— extensive documentation on the United States’s extended, often secret involvement in Vietnam—to ...

Two years ago this week, Daniel Ellsberg died at the age of 92. In the popular imagination, his legacy is often reduced to a singular act of conscience and courage: the 1971 release of the Pentagon ...

Ellsberg died June 16 at age 92. We listen back to a 2017 interview with him, and speak with New York Times correspondent Charlie Savage about... Remembering Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon ...

I have been a history professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst for twenty years. On May 7, I was one of a handful of faculty members arrested for standing in support of hundreds of ...

When someone reveals state secrets, their personal motivations come under intense scrutiny. What’s often lost is the political significance of what they disclosed. Americans love to debate the ...

Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg speaks at a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington, April 27, 2015. [Reuters] Daniel Ellsberg, the U.S. military analyst whose change of ...

Daniel Ellsberg, well-known for leaking the Pentagon papers, a 7,000- page document detailing how the Vietnam War was planned, has received the Ron Ridenhour Courage Award at the National Press Club.