After Terminal Cancer Diagnosis, Daniel Ellsberg Reflects on Leaking Pentagon Papers & His Legacy democracynow.org/2023/5/1/danie via
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Did you see HBO's White House Plumbers tonight? The entire first episode focused on the attempts to burglarize Dr. Fielding's office.
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Entertaining but misleading about the motive for the burglary. NIxon admin was not trying to find evidence that he was a spy or to smear him, but to prevent him from leaking what they feared he possessed, additional docs on Nixon’s secret plans for escalation, including nukes.
Interesting. They also suggested that he gave over the papers to The Times, which Sheehan confirmed was not entirely the case.
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Ryan, that Sheehan story was nonsense. While true that he copied the papers without my dad's consent, Sheehan himself confirmed in the story that when he finally asked my Dad to give him the papers (tho saying falsely that the Times didn't plan to use them) he did.
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