bradley manning, if he's the leaker, is like ellsberg. he's the government employee who violated his trust, and no matter how noble his motives gave classified information to someone not entitled to have it. manning's not charged with violation of the espionage act, he's charged with a military offense, and he's facing court-martial. if he were charged with the espionage act, i'm not even sure that he could be convicted because the government would have to prove that he intended to hurt the united states or help an enemy and that his disclosures at least potentially damaged the united states. that's what a judge said was required under the espionage act a couple years ago when two aipac employees were charged with giving leaked information to israel, and the government had to dismiss the case against them. so far, as you probably know, the government has not claimed that anyone has been harmed as a result of any of the wikileaks disclosures. well, then what about assange? is he like manning, or is he like "the new york times"? is he a lea

the majority i got to lately i'm very optimistic about that it's important to remember the dead ellsberg was vilified in his time and people have really come around even the state department sees him as a hero there are a growing number of people on the right left and center who see bradley manning's alleged deeds as heroic and tiredly beneficial to our country i chase thank you so much for joining us and i will see if the presidential medal of freedom ever comes true but for now i will have to start monitoring what comes out of the fact that these have been really thanks so much. thank you. all still to come tonight show and tell and why don't americans know that wealth disparity in this country is at a record high now are politicians taking advantage of that when it comes to budget cuts when you get into it it seems richard. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so cool a complete you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else here's useable.

i'm very optimistic about that it's important to remember that dan ellsberg was vilified in his time and people have really come around even the state department sees him as a hero there are a growing number of people on the right left and center who see bradley manning's alleged deeds as heroic and tiredly beneficial to our country our chase thank you so much for joining us tonight we'll see if that presidential medal of freedom ever comes true but for now we will have to start monitoring what comes out of the fact that these outlets have been released thanks so much. thank you. well still to come tonight show and tell and why don't americans know that wealth disparity in this country is at a record high how are politicians taking advantage of that when it comes to budget cuts when you get into the rich. wealthy british style it's time to. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy cars report on our. own broadcasting live direct from the heart of moscow this is our team good to have you with us your top headline. rupert murdoch agrees to face a grilling

and people like that and the irony there is ellsberg and people like that were you know exposing the type of information that these guys or women you know than they are now were using as their kind of crafted weapon so i mean you know that's the difference between journalism and journalists doing it and it being a weapon of or a tool of policy let's just say well that's why why do you think it is that the obama administration would want to continually release more and more bad information when it comes to pakistan specifically the relationship is completely soured since the obama era excuse me since the osama bin laden raid and you know it even started before that so why now would this be an opportune moment to even say if the i.s.i. is involved. well killing journalists in pakistan is like a spectator sport over there it's like football or the n.b.a. i mean the pakistan in and of itself georgetown we had the pearl daniel pearl project and we looked at this inside and out it is a crazy situation over there is a very complex country and the relationship between our two countries has b

increases the arctic relations sector grows rapidly with some saying the ellsberg victim of tretton the democracy. this is the line from moscow with me allies have it now the democrats control the us senate has shot down a republican the debt ceiling plan just hours after it was passed in the house of representatives the plan going forward to it by house speaker john boehner would have raised the country's debt ceiling by nine hundred billion dollars along with a similar amount in spending cuts and as the shock takes it down it all gets second when the debt limit is reached there's less time to have unprecedented default crisis which quite promptly us to lose. knowledge credit racing senate's democrat leader harry reid now linked his proposal with the a compromise which could keep the government afloat and according to economists and not the fault wolf this plan is nor likely to get the green lines less than two business days away from the worst self-imposed crisis of america's standing in the world and america's credit rating and at least a century it's a fairly emergency situation and

>> smith: daniel ellsberg, who famously leaked the pentagon papers, hoping to end the vietnam war, came to his defense. >> bradley manning is no more of a traitor than i am, and i'm not. ( cheers and applause ) >> smith: and so did his computer science friends from boston. >> i'm a friend of bradley manning's, and i've been visiting him for the last few months in confinement, and i got to tell you-- it's stuff like this that gives bradley hope. >> smith: manning has refused to cooperate with the government's investigation. supporters say the government is trying to turn him. >> bradley manning has not been convicted of anything. he's not formally been indicted of anything. and he's being punished with this solitary confinement. i believe this is an effort to get bradley manning to crack under the pressure and to maybe go for a plea or something. >> smith: just last month, manning was moved from quantico, virginia, to a military prison in fort leavenworth, kansas. his lawyer says his conditions have improved. manning is expected to face his first pre-trial hearing this summer. in england

actually, nixon was reelected after daniel ellsberg released the pentagon papers. the vietnam war didn't stop. the information was very important in all sorts of ways and it's important over time. the most important thing to come out of the pentagon papers was the reaction to the pentagon papers because the pentagon papers described a situation in the past. what the past was like. but the reaction to the pentagon papers described what was going on right now. and it showed a tremendous overreach by the nixon administration's various attempts to cover things up and actually the "new york times" really probably wouldn't have published the pentagon papers unless they thought they were going to be published anyway which they did. it was scheduled to be published in four month's time. it was very interesting. so on december 6 last year, visa, mastercard, the bank of america, western union, all ganged up together to engage in an economic blockade of wikileaks and that has continued since that point. so it is over six months now we have been suffering from an extra judicia

[applause] >> when you released the papers, -- daniel ellsberg release the pentagon papers, and i spoke to daniel last night. "the new york times" has 1000 pages of the pentagon papers. 1 months before he gave it to them. fresh news. amazing stuff. [laughter] what was the question? [laughter] when he released the pentagon papers, did they suddenly change things? actually, nixon was reelected after data released the pentagon papers. the vietnam war did not stop. the information was very important. over time, it was very important. the most boring thing to come -- most important thing to come out of the papers was the reaction to the pentagon papers. they describe a situation in the past -- the most important thing to come out of the papers was the reaction of the pentagon papers. to reaction describe what was going on right now. it showed a tremendous overreached by the nixon administration. various attempts to cover things up. "the new york times" probably would not have printed the pentagon papers. it was scheduled to be published in four months' time. very interesting. on december 6 l