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era when ellsberg charges were dropped simply because he was bugged bradley's treatment at the hands of the government is so far worse. the charges should be dismissed against him but i don't think we'll see that in fact we can't even as you mentioned get the transcripts from the court proceedings or know what the judge's decisions were. i was wondering about that and i want your take to you know again is this something specific about the time now because as you mentioned to ellsberg it was dropped. because of the way that the government handled the situation but because it's a military you know that's it's actually doing it now and is in charge of the bradley manning case does that mean that all those rules just fly out the window you know to get to be swept under the rug. i think it's a lot of that but i actually think that it's pretty reflective just in general of the change in our political and media culture i mean if you go back and look at contemporaneous debates about the daniel ellsberg case you'll find that it received norma's amounts of attention from the media from citizen
era when ellsberg charges were dropped simply because he was bugged bradley's treatment at the hands of the government is so far worse. the charges should be dismissed against him but i don't think we'll see that in fact we can't even as you mentioned get the transcripts from the court proceedings or know what the judge's decisions were. i was wondering about that and i want your take to you know again is this something specific about the time now because as you mentioned to ellsberg it was...
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he had been involved in ellsberg at an earlier stage. he knew all about that. he was as guilty -- i don't know how -- i have forgotten how the prosecution -- the indictment was drawn, but this was a man who was acting in a sinister fashion and you created a circumstances in which he's one more angel dancing on the head of a pin, which doesn't remotely reflect the role that he played. you can take all the bird droppings in the world and put them into a ball and paint it and make it an easter egg, but it's still what it was originally. and that's the problem i think of this -- of this view of ethics. yes, there's a problem with confidentiality, but i'm stunned by knowing all the other things that mardian did. watt you're doing is defending him -- because you're defending him as an advocate, but that's what gives the public such dismay is that it's a slick profession. >> scott, you ought to say what you think. >> no, i'll tell you i believe in the adversarial system. no, no. i do. all right? i believe that one attorney represents one side, the other attorney repre
he had been involved in ellsberg at an earlier stage. he knew all about that. he was as guilty -- i don't know how -- i have forgotten how the prosecution -- the indictment was drawn, but this was a man who was acting in a sinister fashion and you created a circumstances in which he's one more angel dancing on the head of a pin, which doesn't remotely reflect the role that he played. you can take all the bird droppings in the world and put them into a ball and paint it and make it an easter...
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fielding, lewis fielding, daniel ellsberg's psychologist. you can listen to him talk about that operation. >> we went to check out the house. >> then you might ask yourself, that, by the way, that break-in was illegal. again, if our country you can get a subpoena to get information, could have gone to the fbi. the fbi handles this all the time. the white house chose to use a group of its own and broke in illegally into dr. fielding's office. that was because dr. fielding had not wished to share information about his client. he decided -- he cited doctor/client privilege. the white house breaks in. the question is what did the president know of this? we don't know what he knew in advance but we do know from the tapes he was informed that a domestic covert action had occurred in los angeles. here we go. this is five days after. >> so tomorrow we'll review all this tough. we tried to view -- we had one little operation that aborted out in los angeles, which i think is better that you don't know about. >> agree. >> but we have some dirty tricks
fielding, lewis fielding, daniel ellsberg's psychologist. you can listen to him talk about that operation. >> we went to check out the house. >> then you might ask yourself, that, by the way, that break-in was illegal. again, if our country you can get a subpoena to get information, could have gone to the fbi. the fbi handles this all the time. the white house chose to use a group of its own and broke in illegally into dr. fielding's office. that was because dr. fielding had not...
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in history and going back if you look at watergate if you look at the pentagon papers and daniel ellsberg these were big moments in history and information had to come out and it's impacted what we're doing today not just us as journalists but as the way a country a really good country functions and if they're going to try to take away one of the most important things behind that it's a real travesty and they've been trying to do it all the way back forever forever and ever and espionage act came out last century it's still there they want to prosecute people underneath it but that's what they tried with daniel ellsberg with the pentagon papers and what they're going to try with bradley manning and you know eventually they're probably going to get a son sure they're going to send him over here and try to do that with wiki leaks and really really just last year one more thing because you know there's leaks in every administration as you had mentioned earlier before why is it now i mean we're seeing this unprecedented crackdown on whistleblowers why is it now that congress is so worried abo
in history and going back if you look at watergate if you look at the pentagon papers and daniel ellsberg these were big moments in history and information had to come out and it's impacted what we're doing today not just us as journalists but as the way a country a really good country functions and if they're going to try to take away one of the most important things behind that it's a real travesty and they've been trying to do it all the way back forever forever and ever and espionage act...
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conduct which he knew or should have known would have interfered with the legal defense of daniel ellsberg. he was not acting in a lawyer role but because of that conduct, he lost his law license and he tried to voluntarily resign his license to the new york bar, and they really wanted to write the order disbarring him. so they declined his voluntary resignation and proceeded with disbarment proceedings. >> and, jill, if i could have one point here. the whole reason we're here today is because when john testified in front of the senate, he had created a document in which he was asked who was involved, prebreak-in, most break-in. he wrote it out for his lawyer and then he put stars or asterisks next to the names of many people. when he was shown that during his testimony, he said, you know, what do the stars mean? he said, well, it means that they were all lawyers. and, you know, a full two-thirds of the people involved here were lawyers. gordon liddy was a lawyer. chuck colson was a lawyer. president nixon obviously was a lawyer. but, you know, all of these people were lawyers, and yet non
conduct which he knew or should have known would have interfered with the legal defense of daniel ellsberg. he was not acting in a lawyer role but because of that conduct, he lost his law license and he tried to voluntarily resign his license to the new york bar, and they really wanted to write the order disbarring him. so they declined his voluntary resignation and proceeded with disbarment proceedings. >> and, jill, if i could have one point here. the whole reason we're here today is...
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activists, everyone from daniel ellsberg and others who camped out, and thereererotests felt they, younodnntke wh r tnyha rthid one of the things that i wanted to stress in the book was this idea of secrecy and silencing, and how secrecynd silencing at the leofamil ri coun coort, te' price for that, and so that's one of the things i wanted to bring out. it happened in so many ways. when you have that silencing and secretinin the counit i via un e'cttsos, residents, and often people at odds even the workers who were contaminated and became ill from the work at rocky flats, and thfoea aer o rked out . ny workers were proud of, but there's friction amongst the works, those who were sick, those who didn't, what story do we tell about rocky flats? it's been interestingore inouhe cry lkabthok a inatop h fukushima changed the conversation. we're talking about these things in aery different way now, and i think for whatever reason people are ready toalk about rocky flatinay th inas s a itat he nuclear weapons systems in the country. it was one of 13 facilities. rocky flats was the factory. we produced
activists, everyone from daniel ellsberg and others who camped out, and thereererotests felt they, younodnntke wh r tnyha rthid one of the things that i wanted to stress in the book was this idea of secrecy and silencing, and how secrecynd silencing at the leofamil ri coun coort, te' price for that, and so that's one of the things i wanted to bring out. it happened in so many ways. when you have that silencing and secretinin the counit i via un e'cttsos, residents, and often people at odds even...
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daniel ellsberg, thomas jefferson thomas payne, george washington benjamin franklin, and the list goes did it because he wants you to know what our government is up to. we found out that our government through that disastrous war in iraq wound up killing 15,000 extra civilians in iraq. did your press tell you that? they're lap dogs. that's why they hate bradley manning and julian assange. they'll tell you what the press won't tell you. the government is screwing you. he showed you tape of murders
daniel ellsberg, thomas jefferson thomas payne, george washington benjamin franklin, and the list goes did it because he wants you to know what our government is up to. we found out that our government through that disastrous war in iraq wound up killing 15,000 extra civilians in iraq. did your press tell you that? they're lap dogs. that's why they hate bradley manning and julian assange. they'll tell you what the press won't tell you. the government is screwing you. he showed you tape of...
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the ching empire had conquered mongolia and the war of ellsberg which was france versus netherlands. the ottomans were defeated in vienna and in india there was a ripple. the world population at the time was 700 million. by 2010, wow, look at the difference in the maps. shifting balance of local power is the sidebar title. the largest cities in 2010 were told no, mexico city, mumbai, sÃo paolo and new york in the world population was 6.91 billion. it is so easy for us to compartmentalize the history and geography. you are either studying the u.s., studying rush or starting japan. the beauty of haywood's book is it shows us what was going on about the u.s. was consumed by the civil war, world war i was the european war with global entanglements due to the colonialism of world war ii had battlefronts for multiple continents. the library journal review evaluated this up very succinctly. valuable picture of human development that was useful to academic and public libraries. the benefit of this book -- american menswear is just great fun. there are many books devoted to women's wear about
the ching empire had conquered mongolia and the war of ellsberg which was france versus netherlands. the ottomans were defeated in vienna and in india there was a ripple. the world population at the time was 700 million. by 2010, wow, look at the difference in the maps. shifting balance of local power is the sidebar title. the largest cities in 2010 were told no, mexico city, mumbai, sÃo paolo and new york in the world population was 6.91 billion. it is so easy for us to compartmentalize the...
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watergate, the pentagon papers and dan ellsberg, and the whole concept of prior drink. i would appreciate anything that you get a -- >> without objection, material will be put in the record. we would like to publish the record sometime within the next two years, however, since it is somewhat of a broad request. but do your best. the gentlewoman from florida. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. wainstein, does leaking diplomatic cables endanger innocent people and harm our national security? >> certainly can, and i think the wikileaks? we saw that there was danger presented to people, and particularly those folks who are over in the war zones to help us out and who then got outed by those documents. who knows what's happened to some of them come but i'm in fear of their lives. >> colonel, if you go, how would you address to our allies, you know, i'm sure they're concerned with problems of our intelligence services, loss of confidence in our ability to keep secrets and such. how would you repair the damage and how would you address it, if you could? >> i'm not sure. i was a y
watergate, the pentagon papers and dan ellsberg, and the whole concept of prior drink. i would appreciate anything that you get a -- >> without objection, material will be put in the record. we would like to publish the record sometime within the next two years, however, since it is somewhat of a broad request. but do your best. the gentlewoman from florida. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. wainstein, does leaking diplomatic cables endanger innocent people and harm our national...