then i was in vietnam, but then i read the pentagon papers.vietnam, as everyone knew coming back who'd been involved in combat extent, because we were not going to win. we were not going to get these guys to quit. they were not going to quit. some of your critics, i'm going to quote one of them. he's an academic called gabriel schoenfeld. he has written about your decision. and he said, "there is a fundamental arrogance "about what daniel ellsberg did" because, he said, and i'm going to quote him, he said, "you know, we have a system for controlling critical "national security secrets." very, very well controlled. yes. and he said, "you know, this is established by the congress, "by the executive branch, both of which are "elected by the people." congress had nothing to do with it. congress has nothing to do with the classification system. it is an executive system ruled by regulations from the defense department. ultimately, the president. ultimately the president who is elected by the people. what? who is elected by the people, the president

anybody at the pentagon t it's -- and do i believe that we could cut the pentagon at 10% and he could get better at what they do? yeah, actually with, i do. might not happen but it's at least possible. you need to get into that mindset. not, oh, my gosh, we have a problem, please give me another check. and believe me, it ain't just the pentagon that looks at the world way. i've been dealing with public policy for 32 years, we don't have enough resources. the world is what it is. in the world there's a finite if amount of resources unless you happen to be elon elon miss or jeff bezos. for the most part, you've got to find the resources. and when you get really good at it is when you accept that and you say i'm going to make the best of what i have. other than what i listed which is not insignificant, you know, look at it that way. we have to live with $800 billion. can we do it? absolutely, we can. and then you've got all the partners. you know, there's other people out there who are now starting to step up because the threat from russia and china the has become very real after ukraine

so all this construction was funded by the pentagon to control the pentagon.ng was completely inaccessible to the public. in the end , the authorities of the kharkiv region listened to the voice of the people in the world, but after the maidan, when ukraine was occupied americans are the opinion of people, no one else asked the object was taken under military protection, what is happening there now? nobody knows for sure. at the disposal of our editors were dataer's reports on the activities in ukraine ukraine project ukrainian project each project has its own number from one to eight. formal, for all purposes, the study is plausible, we showed these documents to the russian microbiologist mikhail supotnitsky. here, for example, i am confused by a strange subject. it seems that for the first time in ukraine they are generally engaged in epidemiology, for example, for each special dangerous infection investigated in this project , its own algorithm will be developed. i used these algorithms, including ukrainian textbooks, when i studied and later i used many uk

ritvoritelno good work for the pentagon he went to the americans. he called them all the developments that they had made, including on uh living people. so he handed over the documentation to them, thereby earning himself a guarantee that he would not be given away with advice and his personality is not presented on e, the tokyo rostrum and his traces were found during the war on the korean peninsula in the use of bacteriological weapons in the united states there in many samples that the koreans and chinese found, just felt the vc 731 of the detachment. these were standard designs. well , of course, significantly improved, then the americans. all in the world there are about 200 white laboratories located in the usa and 25 countries. our team is always aimed beyond the horizon. we are ready to conquer the unknown because we know that our current efforts. ultimately , the threat prevention agency will change the game from tomorrow. and the united states of america is one of the few countries that has postponed this destruction to 23, and they say th

the pentagon is developing various bioweapon dispersal technologies. including explosives and bioaerosol sprayers, such devices are called and they already exist in the american army according to documents. they can be placed on cars or carried in backpacks, which are used for screen spraying accuracy can spray 50 to 500 ml of liquid per minute. from a container and a volume of 12 liters of flashes it seemed that the damage that can be carried by flashes is comparable to the damage of world wars. take , for example, the coronavirus pandemic. this is more than 270 million cases. that 's over 5 million deaths and damage. already comparable to the damage brought by the second world war. when the soviet union collapsed, the west was very happy because he managed to destroy the superpower. hi grab. after it , a rich legacy, the former allied republics, the main prize ukraine, as well as the unique developments of the military-industrial complex and the biological protection system of the soviet union, laboratories with priceless collections of strains of pa

of the functioning of biological laboratories under their control, which receive funding from the pentagon or its contractors blocking by the united states initiatives to develop the control mechanism of the cbt at the ninth review conference of the states parties to the convention once again confirms that washington has something to hide ensuring transparency. biological research contradicts interesting us we previously reported on ongoing work at boston university to enhance the pathogenic properties of pathogens, 19 which are being funded by the us state budget, as well as the possibility of involvement of the us agency for international development in the emergence of a new coronavirus, a key role in the implementation of this project belongs to the intermediary organization ecos alliance. the documents we received from the department of threat reduction of the us department of defense ditra confirm that since 2015, the specialists of this company have been studying the diversity of populations, bats, the search for new strains, coronaviruses, mechanisms and transmission from animal to

the pentagon supports the decision of us allies to provide western tanks to ukraine. this was reported by the spokesman of the us ministry of defense, patrick ryder . i will remind the meeting of the contact group on ukraine issues at rammstein that two days ago, poland announced the provision of a company of leopard tanks for ukraine, and great britain promised 12 tanks challenger 2,225 ukrainians arrived in spain to undergo military training . they were met personally by the minister of defense of spain, margarita robles. 20 ukrainian servicemen will undergo training in handling the hulk missile defense systems. basic training, it will include training in providing medical aid to the wounded and disarming explosive devices in transcarpathia received additional means of heating from the united states, american businessmen, the former extraordinary plenipotentiary ambassador of the united states in finland, earl irwin mack, handed over 335 heat guns to ensure rapid heating in points of invincibility throughout the region, the collection of money was organized by the e

well, in this way, the contract that the pentagon has now concluded with the petriv system is embeddedthis huge logic in this new strategy . he mentioned in his material from germany. and here is a very interesting newsquick publication to which i want to draw your attention. that the patriot tank systems will appear - this is the next thing that the united states will be ready for only because, as the military says, in particular, general hodges says about this, russia can no longer have the resources to escalate the situation at the front. well, they threatened this in response to new deliveries of armored vehicles, that is, we are waiting for rammstein and indeed rammstein is very serious and has a lot to show colleagues kyiv thank you dima for this information it was our special correspondent and from washington dmytro anopchenko not to wait but to do what we can in kharkiv on among the ruins and defaced high-rise buildings, many suffering people are trying to rebuild their homes. they are repairing their homes with their own hands and with joint funds. svitlana shokera will tell a

we are gathered to mourn the loss of a giant at the pentagon. and to celebrate an extraordinary life of service. ash carter was both a brilliant thinker and a bold leader. as our paths crossed over the years i always saw the same man that president biden saw. a public servant of vast integrity deeply devoted to our troops and determined to defend our country and make a better world for our children. the 25th secretary of defense was a physicist at heart. his curiosity was insatiable. he loved visiting our state-of-the-art labs and testing new technology. i am told his staff had a name for the visits. ash carter looks at science. he was hands on, sometimes very hands-on. like when -- flew along with paratroopers from the 82nd airborne division for a training jump. the next thing they knew, the secretary of defense had strapped on a harness and wanted to jump out right alongside them. i don't know if he changed his mind or the jump master talked him out of it, but we are glad he did not jump. now ash's scientific mindset drove him to always face f

you have to be, you, you curry favor with the pentagon, you immediately say yes, yes, yes. let's go with the pentagon narrative, i mean, journalists, american journalists, british as well. so this is really strange journalism. well, it's not journalism quite as she is pure, pure war propaganda. it's a real, obviously very painful topic for me because i did work so many years in the major media and i have so many friends over this issue, but nothing's going to change. i don't see anything changing. my colleague who just spokes is more optimistic. i'm more pessimistic. i don't see that people are really rising up. i don't see any changes in the mass media, but for some people to rise up, there's going to have to be a revolution inside the mass media because of the mass media such enormous power over how americans see the world. because they don't have time to do research or that what's really happening ukraine, they just repeat the talking points out in the c, cnn new york times. so it has really want to change something. it's got to start by changing something inside the ame

the promoting false narrative, the pentagon narratives. right? do you remember there was a time when, if you were a journalist now you had to be wherever the pentagon said was bad and you will always automatically opposition to whatever, whatever the pentagon said and, and now today the opposite. you have to be, you, you curry favor with the pentagon, you immediately say yes, yes, yes. let's go with the pentagon narrative, i mean, journalists, american journalist, british as well. so this is really strange journalism. well, it's not journalism, quite this. she is pure, pure war propaganda. it's is a real, obviously very painful topic for me because i did work so many years in the major media and i have so many friends over this issue. but things are going to change. i don't think changing my colleague who just spokes is more optimistic. i'm more pessimistic. i don't see that people are really rising up. i don't see any changes in the mass media and for some people to rise up is going to have to be a revolution. is that the mass media because of t

we are gathered to mourn the loss of a giant at the pentagon. and to celebrate an extraordinary life of service. ash carter was both a brilliant thinker and a bold leader. as our paths crossed over the years i always saw the same man that president biden saw. a public servant of vast integrity deeply devoted to our troops and determined to defend our country and make a better world for our children. the 25th secretary of defense was a physicist at heart. his curiosity was insatiable. he loved visiting our state-of-the-art labs and testing new technology. i am told his staff had a name for the visits. ash carter looks at science. he was hands on, sometimes very hands-on. like when -- flew along with paratroopers from the 82nd airborne division for a training jump. the next thing they knew, the secretary of defense had strapped on a harness and wanted to jump out right alongside them. i don't know if he changed his mind or the jump master talked him out of it, but we are glad he did not jump. now ash's scientific mindset drove him to always face f

today i was personally in the pentagon and there said that until we run ahead, we will not say anythingall, it is very likely that everything will happen today, well, precisely because this information is preliminary, that today there will be an announcement about the abrams, it appeared there somewhere, not in the yellow pages, you know what a downpour and it appeared in the leading and largest editions of the united states. well, they refer to officials of the american administration , in particular to the island, the magazine writes that this step by washington will become part of the agreement with germany . well, as the newspaper writes, we will trust it provides for the allocation by kyiv of a certain number of german leopard-2 tanks, as well as berlin's consent to the supply of german tanks that are in poland, well, regarding the number, there is also preliminary information, it should be emphasized that it was published in today's issue of the political newspaper, well, they write precisely that it will be at least abrams tanks, which will come to ukraine, well, here i have to r

daniel ellsberg of the pentagon papers fame has gotten involved as well. john young and daniel are asking to be indicted along with julian assange, but they are not being indicted. why are they treat it differently than julian assange? ms. hathaway: that is a great question. so you may remember, julian assange is the one who published all of these documents on wikileaks. and initially, the government charged him only with cybersecurity violations. so violations of rules that prohibit packing. but then in the trump administration, they added a charge, which is an espionage act charge for gathering and transmitting classified information or national defense information that can do harm to u.s. national security. and that triggered a lot of people to be worried about how that law might be applied to journalists, two public commentators and others, because what julian assange was being prosecuted for, which was putting up these documents that he had not in most cases secured. he had not taken them from the government, he had received them from others and he wa

this is a statement from pentagon spokesman his they asked to comment on the words of the minister of the navy carlos del toro, who earlier said that in six months the united states may encounter difficulties in deliveries to kiev, but the pentagon says that you can handle the new modern equipment instead of the old one, which it supplies to ukraine, the american defense department also says that support the plans of the countries of the european union to supply kiev with tanks and infantry fighting vehicles, we are talking about france germany poland supplies. they promise, despite the fact that they openly admit that the strong deplete their own reserves from a massive supply of armored vehicles that , uh, would be capable of changing the course of hostilities in ukraine, uh. there is no talk of such deliveries now, but according to my observations, the united states is not their european allies. not ready now. they take more than a month testing, so to speak, our erection on uh or otherwise. germany still did not receive requests from poland for the supply of german-made leopard ta

is focused on what he called the next stage of the battle for ukraine, according to him, the pentagon wants to focus on increasing the supply of weapons that the ukrainians need to change the current dynamics, or on the dynamics, he said, looks like this: russian forces and ukrainian forces are exchanging victories and losses in the territory of a few blocks or a few kilometers and a new wave of weapons from the coat of arms of the allies, as he said, the new phase in the supply of these weapons is designed to change this the dynamic of what exactly it is about can be seen in the package of military aid that the usa provided to ukraine, the bradley armored personnel carriers are at the top of this list , he expressed the hope that mechanized capabilities will change this dynamic. a few challenger 2 tanks, the french provided their imx-10, and therefore natural reporters in the pentagon asked, okay? and if before the usa provided tanks, are they going to provide the abrams that they are asking for of ukrainians, the deputy minister of defense kal did not give an unequivocal answer, but

it is already reported that the head of the pentagon made an opening speech. what did he say, right now we will find out from our european correspondent regina sevastyanova on a direct connection with us regina welcome, we are waiting for details. hello this is the eighth meeting of contact groups of countries assisting ukraine and nato countries and their allies with a total of about 50 states at the opening of this meeting. the head of the pentagon catches austin said that, according to the united states, now is the decisive moment in the conflict in ukraine so he urged the allies not to slow down and continue delivering arms to ukraine he also stated that the united states would only support kiev as much as needed during his opening remarks to the allies and by the way, ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky who joined this meeting via video link, and loit announced a new us aid package for ukraine that will help ukraine deal with the most urgent problems that have arisen on the battlefield. this new $2.5 billion aid package is one of the largest with it, t

we need to somehow have confidence and believe in our own armed forces and in our pentagon in our the on the one hand, it is certainly fine to ask questions and think critically about it, but on the other hand, sometimes you have to accept a possible answer. i want to ask you about the scandals that are currently raging in the united states connected with the fact that secret documents were found at joe biden's not where they were supposed to be and these documents relate to the times of his vice presidency. please tell me the details of this story and what it can turn into for biden, so much will the republicans promote this story, of course, and here no questions. in the sense of republicans, this is just a big gift. sides with a political country, oh the president looks terrible, look at him, they found some secret documents, what a shame , how dare he now say something about uh , don't even remember who was there before, but the president is so terrible here we see where it all goes, they don't even talk about trump, but from the legal point of view, the big difference is because

this statement was made by the pentagon press secretary.to comment on the words of the minister of the navy carlos del toro, who earlier said that in six months the united states may encounter difficulties in deliveries to kiev, but the pentagon says that you can handle it for now new modern equipment to replace the old, which is supplied to ukraine, the us defense department also declares that they support the plans of the countries of the european union to supply such tanks and infantry fighting vehicles, we are talking about france germany poland deliveries. they promise, despite openly admitting that strong is depleting their own stocks of a massive supply of armored vehicles that uh would be capable of changing the course of hostilities in ukraine uh, out of the question now. and for such deliveries, and according to my observations, and not the united states is not their european allies. not ready now. they take more than the first months of testing, so to speak, our erection on e, one way or another. germany still did not receive req

this statement by the pentagon press secretary he was asked to comment on the words of the minister of navy carlson deltar, who had previously stated that in six months the united states may encounter difficulties in deliveries to kiev, but the pentagon states that the military-industrial complex will cope with new modern equipment instead of the old one, which is also supplied to ukraine in american the defense department declare that they support the plans of the countries of the european union to supply such bmp rich tanks to france germany poland, they promise deliveries, despite the fact that they openly admit that the strong ones are depleting their own stocks. massive deliveries of armored vehicles are out of the question, which, uh, could change the course of hostilities in ukraine, uh, are out of the question now, and put observations on such. uh, the ununited states, not their european allies, to be honest, not ready. they've been doing it for months now. testing, so to speak, our erection on e, or others. germany still did not receive requests from poland to supply ukraine w

the inquiry examined the pentagon supplies of eiletha weaponry, including a ammo miss 1000 torpedoes to contractors. and 9 years ago, the defense to pop and said that $220000000000.00 worth of us military equipment was provided to contractors. but the audit said that my bill was probably a gross on the statement, and it was unable to assess the current amount. the government accountability office also said the pentagon has made practically no progress and accurately monitoring its arm supplies to contract as well. this apparently has been well, an ongoing issue for the u. s. defense department. well, for decades. the pentagon's most recent annual financial report failed to hold up to scrutiny for the 5th consecutive year. the defense department managed to account for less than half of it's $3.00 trillion dollars in total declared assets. it says it will properly address the issue within the next 2 years. well, amidst all of this, here we have yet another enormous military, a package for key f. i recently the u. s. approved up to $2500000000.00 for ukrainian troops. that includes well

so the inquiry examined the pentagon supplies of lethal weapons including missiles and told peters to various contractors. now, 9 years ago the defense department said that $220000000000.00 of u. s. military equipment was provided to contract is that the audit said that number was probably a gross understatement, and it was unable to assess the current amount. the government accountability office also said the pentagon has made practically no progress and accurately monitoring his arms supplies to all these different contract as well. this apparently has been rather an ongoing issue for us defense department. as we understand for decades, the pentagon's most recent annual financial report failed hold up to scrutiny for the 5th consecutive year. the defense to pop and manage to account for less than half of its $3.00 trillion dollars in total declared assets. it says it will properly address the issue within the next 2 years. well, i mean, all of this meantime, of course, we have another enormous military aid package for key f. recently, america approved up to $2500000000.00 for ukrain

guest: famously, the pentagon has never passed an audit. one is underway and some of the preliminary results are that they failed the audit. realistically, no. it depends on the united states, our congress will not sit and wait for an audit to put more money, that's how the world works. they say the enemy gets a boat and no other countries are sitting around waiting for an audit either. but it is kind of a unicorn in defense reporting circles, there's a story about the audit, they did not make it? it continues. people are working on it, and maybe one day they will get there. host: in florida, the republican line. go ahead. caller: mr. barron, you are talking a lot about different issues regarding defense. and you are kind of pooh-poohing the border scenario. i would like to point out certain that numerous known terrorists have been caught trying to get into the border. that seems to me that is a defense issue for this country. the laws of the united states are being ignored by the current administration and i think it is just a matter of ti

for the moment we really did not hear many messages from the pentagon. and about what is difficult from the zoological side, to supply these tanks for ukraine, are they difficult to operate and maintain, and today, in fact, the spokesman quantized petre he said yes the fact that abrams tanks are difficult to maintain , this effect will remain a fact today and in the future, however, the united states has never ruled out the possibility of any deliveries for ukraine, including no military equipment at the moment, again, we still have reports in the media that the usa is considering the supply of such tanks for ukraine. these are one of the most modern tanks currently available they are considering several dozen american content on this matter in the pentagon, today she said that she answered the questions of journalists that they have nothing to announce at the moment, but she assured that if there are such news, they will definitely be reported, the american mass media believe that such an announcement may be made public to yulia already this week ago, a

it is necessary to increase for this the pentagon calls military bases scattered around the world.hey write with him to share equipment, asking for strength to reach latin america, but ukraine was promised a lot of money. and immediately kiev will not receive the pentagon, they said the united states will send 2.5 billion there, the new aid package will include weapons , ammunition, air defense systems and armored personnel carriers, but kiev is not enough. abrams battle tanks have been begging for a long time from america; they will not be asked. why do the pentagon answer because they continue throwing aggressive statements around the us is helping ukraine and the department of defense has said we will be with ukraine for as long as it takes this includes an operation in crimea i think it's pretty obvious that taking over part of their sovereign state is something that will have a huge impact on russia , but when the sabies cannot demand from others, the united states no longer plays tolerance, telling the ally of solidarity now in black and white, and i supply kiev with weapons

it seems that the pentagon was. to look at the photographs of the damage on the facade of the pentagon building with an attacked missile. 2977 people became victims of the attacks , including 343 firefighters and 60 policemen, not only us citizens, but also 92 other states were killed. and after that, the americans began a fierce war against terrorists, as well as against those people who did not necessarily consider terrorists, not necessarily all were terrorists and waged this war, the united states of america must be said without respect some rules using the most cruel methods of knocking out confessions by the most cruel interrogations and the use of torture, which were de facto allowed in the prisons of the united states of america, which were created for these same terrorists or islamist radicals for two days, afghanistan, large centers of afghanistan were bombed , and with hmm naval ships for two days on afghanistan was released. 55 cruise missiles, and cruise missiles are a missile with nuclear warheads, the

by the way, the most controversial experiment, according to the russian ministry of defense, the pentagonhe united states is an example of an experiment related to hiv infection, which has been carried out with american specialists on the territory of ukraine since 2019. please note that the target groups are not only high-risk patients convicted drug addicts, but also representatives of the armed forces of ukraine from current to new information about american laboratories and experiments, disappeared during a special operation , a testing center for drugs and a pancake in the frontier on the territory of the lpr, lisichansky , local residents found a cache with biomaterials and documents from that same laboratory. this suggests that the elimination of data, evidence. it was carried out in an extremely haste by the ministry of defense of russia , the average factor for the use of ukrainian military personnel of psychostimulants and narcotic drugs methadone phenomena military facts of smuggled delivery of morphine to the regional performance of combat missions in just over a year of speci

a 7000 page top secret pentagon study and covering years of official lies about u. s. military involvement in the vietnam war. the leak documents, known as the pentagon papers were instrumental in exposing the scope and strategy behind the u. s. is war in the region, and many at the time believed they could change how the world viewed war decades later as conflicts re john and ukraine, yemen in ethiopia, just to name a few. the decision making process behind wars remains as murky. is that what we do know is that billions of dollars are spent on weapons and defense contracts every year, making conflict incredibly profitable result. so will benefit from war. and who are the biggest players behind the war machine and up front special. but daniel ellsberg ah, daniel ellsberg, thank you so much for joining me on up front. thank you for having a large part of your life's work. has been committed to not only raising awareness about the dangers of nuclear weapons, but also the money behind them. in 20. 20 is. the pandemic raged the 9 nuclear weapons. states collectively spe

and of course, your leaking of the pentagon papers is a prime example of that. but to day we have an expansion arise even of this information and it's hard to decipher what's true, what's not, what's fact, what's fiction, how important is it to have actual transparency when it comes to government actions and government decisions about war? i'm afraid that transparency and war or 2 words don't really go to each other. they don't exist together in war time, the secrecy that the government carries on all the time about its own crimes and lies in misleading statements in bad predictions. reckless actions, that secrecy is certainly legitimized in war because you have to keep it from an enemy. that's one of the senses in which i said enemies are indispensable, especially as a long term once in a, in a cold war. we have to keep things from russians altogether. so you don't, you don't get transparency. and when people do come out, there's 2 native. if they do get prosecutor, when it's coming out of the sick, part of it, which is very dismaying, is nothing much happens.

are aware that the pentagon papers were published and the pentagon papers were a secret pentagon history of the war in vietnam, which demonstrated that at times when government officials were saying in public, we're going to win the war, we see the light at the end of the tunnel, private only they were telling each other, oh, boy, this is a really bad situation we don't think we can come out of this. so when the pentagon papers were published, then it became apparent that there was serious by government this war. and this is one of the things that really turned americans against the war that, first of all, last a long time, long wars are not popular, especially when young men are going to have to go off and fight them against their will. you know, the draft is going to be on. and then and then vietnam ends in a defeat. so not was government deceptive and therefore unethical and worthy of confidence, but it was also inept even when it was doing the wrong thing. it didn't accomplish it. so vietnam is a large part of the story behind the loss of confidence government. and this is crucial, t

it is necessary to increase for this the pentagon is calling military bases scattered around the worldte with him to share the technique and ask for the power to reach latin america for the same money. ukraine was promised a lot. immediately, kiev will not receive the pentagon, the united states will send 2.5 billion there, the new aid package will include weapons, ammunition , air defense systems and armored personnel carriers, but kiev is not enough. there, america's long-begging abrams battle tanks will not be in question. why is the pentagon responding because they continue to throw out aggressive statements the united states is helping ukraine and the department of defense has said that we will be with ukraine for as long as it takes this includes the operation in crimea i think it is pretty obvious that the seizure part of their sovereign state is something that will have a huge impact on russia, but when the sabis can not demand from others the us is no longer playing tolerance, telling the ally of solidarity now eats black and white supplies kiev with weapons not out of love, b

if you call the pentagon an intermediary, then the pentagon was an intermediary, and yes, bulgaria earned,000 bulgarians worked at 100% at that time the funds went to local budgets and it was a big contribution to the economy, the other part was diesel and here it is even more interesting because it was russian oil which was processed at a local oil refinery. so the russians knew nothing about the business. it was a private business, it was not the state's business. i'm missing the fact that many oil traders bought oil or diesel from lukoil and delivered it to ukraine. i don't know what and when lukoil knew, but i know that the us government obviously knew what is happening and fully supported it is interesting that we even asked the eu delegation to allow us to continue buying russian oil on the they have oil, the reality is that the refinery in these months worked at one hundred percent capacity, and the local market consumed only 40%, so 60% was set for export, and this is why russian oil was used, which went to support ukraine. i think that it is more important for ukraine to have bul