i wanted to scream at the television, yeah, and daniel ellsberg wasn't daniel ellsberg before he was daniel ellsberg, in other words he was also called treasonous, it's only later that we catch up with the reality. shouldn't we have a transparent government? should we allow them to close the door and allow them to act with impunity? >> only 40% of those who identify as solid wlliberals describe themselves as proud to be american, compared to the roughly 70% who describe themselves as conservatives. why do you think that so few liberals are not proud to be an american? >> i'm not proud to be an american and i don't buy the american exceptionalism at all. the reason i'm not proud to be an american is because the damage that we do around the world is so serious and so ongoing so if you look anywhere in the world, look all through latin america, ordinary people on the street, they stood up to america. >> we stood up to some people too. germany. >> i understand and that was us at our best. >> why don't you think about the good when you think about what america is? >> i often think about t

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the main person who wanted to get the goods on of course was daniel ellsberg who -- kissinger was worked up about this and had gotten nixon all worked up. there was actually then committed probably the most dangerous, nixon understood this. he was far more concerned about the falling -- following haven't been found up other than the watergate break-in and that is the burglars, the plumbers. they were called plumbing for leaks. it was said. they went out to california and they rated the office of daniel ellsberg's psychiatrist to get his psychiatric files to imagine that. a white house sending somebody out to examine somebody's psychiatric files. there was just one problem though. they had casey, there were no files. they broke in okay, and they had their picture taken. two of them, hunt and libby, the leaders have their picture taken. they were so proud in front of the doctor's office door. they were using cia equipment, cameras, voice changes, wigs, and so the cia got these pictures and said what's this? this is a violation of fourth amendment beyond anything we could imagine. that's wh

. >> -- daniel ellsberg, who leaked the pentagon papers. and obama's used it how many? >> eight times. it's unbelievable, and -- >> the espionage act. >> right, the espionage act. and who would've ever imagined that? this is something obama never talked about in campaigns. he never publicly said he was going to go do this. and like a lot of things in his administration, he's trying to have it both ways. he's supporting a shield law, to some extent, in congress for journalists. but on the other hand, he's criminalizing investigative reporting by going after sources. and so he's throwing a bone, or being accommodating to the national security establishment in washington, which, you know, in just a couple-year period, did 76 million classified documents. far more than any time in u.s. history. and so he's a prisoner to that community to a large extent. and this is a fellow who didn't know anything about foreign policy. was a state legislator in illinois and was a one-term senator. and suddenly he's become more hawkish against reporters than i don't know why anyone -- i don

but when the judge sentenced jeremy hammond to ten years in prison, she said, you're no daniel ellsberg. and i said, he was also called treasonist and it's only later that we catch up with the reality. shouldn't we know what our government is doing? should we allow them to close the door and act with impunity? that's what we're doing. snowden stopped that. >> there was was a study released that only 40% describe themselves as proud to be american, compared to the roughly 70% as conservatives. why do you think there are so few liberals that are proud to be american? >> i have no idea. >> are you? >> i'm not a liberal, if that's what you mean. >> are you proud to be american? >> i'm not proud to be american and i don't buy the american conceptualism. it's the damage that we do around the world that is so serious and so ongoing. so if you look anywhere in the world, look at latin america. ordinary people on the street admire cuba for one reason. they stood up to america. they stood up to imperial advances. >> we stand up to people, too. germany. >> i understand. that was when we were at ou

then there was no release of the pentagon papers by daniel ells burg in 1971. had been ellsberg identified so the case is different. the president's entire national security and foreign-policy advisers had warned him that it was extremely important that these officials who were leaking this information to be identified and stopped. ellsberg had been identified but it was by no means certain he would not leak war information and part of the pentagon papers had been published and it was not known whether he will go ahead with the rest. and that was reason to believe he had additional information. affidavit, a sworn affidavit in april of this year, testified in the 10 days after the publication of the first pentagon papers, these papers which related to our decision-making processes in a on andt was still going which american troops were still in combat and kissinger were trying to settle with negotiations in paris, ehrlichman said henry kissinger met with him and the president and told them about ehrlichman. about daniel ellsberg and told quote "inhe was and i knowledge of very cr

they were to tell the people througthrough their representats that daniel ellsberg was almost certainly a russian spy. the accusation was continuously made including by the nixon officials before the court said the disclosures would severely damage american national security and risk the lives of men and women in uniform and was in general undermine the security of the united states and it is now essentially a consensus that all of that was fictitious and that the disclosures were noble an and aerobic and certainly in the public interest yet there is no conception at all when the accusations are made at the fact that they have been made over and over and over again and it's proving over and over and over again might mean that we ought to have at least as journalists in iowa skepticism when those claims were made in the latest instance. the reality is the disclosures that were made have been quite damaging to the reputations and threputation andthe credibilityn officials who have been lying to the public and building a massive surveillance system in secret for all these years but it has

howard hunt, which included his participation in the break-in of daniel ellsberg's psychiatrist, which included howard hunt's participation in the dita beard itt affair, which included howard hunt's fabrication of cables designed to discredit the committee -- kennedy administration. cautioned today that perhaps these proceedings ought to be delayed because there would be new evidence forthcoming from the president. there has not been an indication that this committee would receive any additional terrae oh from the president. the committee's subpoena is outstanding. if the president wants to supply that material, the committee sits here. yesterday, the american people waited with great anxiety for eight hours not knowing whether their president would will pay -- would obey an order of the supreme court of the united states. at this point, i would like to just pose the best jokes to suppose -- i would like to juxtapose a few of the impeachment criteria with some of the president's actions. impeachment criteria, james madison, from the virginia ratification convention. if the president be

fielding's office were burglared by the plumbers to procure access to the psychiatric files of daniel ellsberg allegedly for a national security purpose of but in reality to interfere with a trial that was to begin involving dr. ellsberg, you only have to examine the language of the president in the conversations with mr. dean on march 21 and march 17. >> time of the gentleman has expired. >> i would be happy to yield. >> i appreciate that. it is hard for me to complete a sentence when i want to analyze the conversation -- i appreciate that. [laughter] i do appreciate that. i referred to march 21 and the conversation that i will be reading will be a description of how the ellsberg case became a national security issue. the president is told by dean about the break-in and said the president said, "i do not know what the hell we did that for." the president said, "what in the name of god did that?" the president said i do not know what the hell. dean said, "i do not know." the president said "how do you keep it out?" dean said he might put on a national security ground bases which really it was.