>> he is no daniel ellsberg. what he did was just a dump of classified material. i think people are going to lose their lives because of it. just as the chief of staff mullen said. this going to cost some lives. >> what is your take, mike? >> the government tends to cry wolf over this thing, but this time they are right the response was slow, that this was old news, but as the week went on, they realize the danger to afghan informants whose names are now out there. the mainstream media was very responsible. "the new york times" went to the west wing before they printed it t, just as colby's paper, "the washington post," which will probably win a pulitzer for the "top secret america series." >> jeanne? >> there could be more to come, but the initial review of fighting the names of the afghan sources may cause wikileaks to mps to scrutinize the last batch, 15,000 more but -- to at least scrutinize the last batch, 50,000 more records. it is pretty bad when you have both the u.s. and afghanistan's military operations all decrying what has happened, because there is no

and i think that's what sets this apart from what's going on now i mean they wanted to throw daniel ellsberg to the wolves they wanted to attack the leaks i mean the pentagon papers case gave rise to watergate because with nixon wanted a group of people like liddy you could go around and burglarize and stop this kind of stuff and now you don't have that you know you have work in self supporting manti which is which is ironic the man who leaked the pentagon papers is supporting manning but nobody else is the mainstream media is attacking julian assange on whether the supporting him so everything's just flipped around from from what i remember even as a child well that is. interesting because you know you yourself are a journalism professor and right now there's a huge debate within the journalistic world because you're right a lot of people are attacking manning they're talking assignment they're saying fees people are betraying you know the united states they're putting lives in danger and yet you have daniel as. humming to their defense hailing them how do you teach this to your students ho

within the military within the enlisted officials there are now pumping documents out just as daniel ellsberg put out the pentagon papers from within the pentagon in one thousand nine hundred ninety he had turned against the war many people said that these documents then you know constitute anything all the information out there was already known to the public was already known to the administration what do you say to that is. that well it's true and not true because of course the administration knew that they were losing the war in the in the documents paint that picture so in one sense that's true but there's something very strange and hypocritical about the pronouncements that this is nothing new if you went back in one thousand nine hundred seventy and looked at the new york times coverage of the pentagon papers which also use classified documents to tell the story of vietnam the pentagon and the media said the same thing oh this is old news this is old news nothing relevant here they said the same thing during the pentagon papers but what was new was that the american people were learnin

and daniel ellsberg, who is the one who leaked the pentagon papers has called him a heroic whistle blower. but is lost in the shuffle of this as congressman mike regions of michigan calls for manning to be executed, the former speechwriter for president bush basically said he wants to have the founder of wicky leaks rendered by special forces and brought to trial, is that this was one man in an army across the world of people, bradley manning, that had access to secret documents. they were not top-secret. they were secret documents, of a lower classification than many of the documents that private contractors have access to. and in this country right now there are over 800,000 employees of private intelligence companies or war companies. they have access to top-secret documents. these individuals are not in the united states army, not in the united states military and not employees of the united states government. they are private contractors. these individuals on a regular basis have access to some of the most sensitive intelligence gathered and produced in this country and they simultan