the release of the pentagon papers those are very high level secrets and even those who are not releasing any national security information that should have been kept secret all we are finding out from even the highest level secret pentagon papers in the lowest level secrets is there is a high level behavior misbehavior by the u.s. far by u.s. foreign policy we're showing our corporations and the government work closely together to support corporate profit rather than public interest we're showing all sorts of inappropriate behavior by people like secretary say clinton who ordered u.s. diplomats to spy on u.n. officials when they came to meetings in the united nations that's illegal yet she's not being prosecuted manning who is accused of the century telling the truth is being prosecuted facing life in prison while people who commit war crimes and other crimes are not being prosecuted. well as a look at what else is making news around the world the south the stable protesters have clashed with security forces in the believe in capital that has demanded that before to start paying them an

what role, if any, did you play in the nixon administration's reaction to the pentagon papers issued? >> pretty major role. we had a lot of meetings in my office right after that started happening, which involved john mitchell and mel laird. maybe bill rogers. i'm not sure. ron zeigler and myself. maybe someone else. i don't know. possibly colston. and so the question was how do we handle it because the pentagon papers didn't indict us in the slighters. they were all about things beforehand. but our concern was keeping the public supportive of us in the vietnam war. so mitchell was really the dominant factor in the straenl that we ended up with of trying to prevent publication my approach to it was that the public was right had they cleared it but they knew we had a rule that you should classify a document, you should clear it and they hadn't done that and that was my argument against it. that was supported some by the courts. >> what was mel laird's issue? >> mel was just very angry about the whole thing because he thought it reflected on him and the department and he wanted to go ge

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those were released the pentagon papers those are very high level secrets and even those were not releasingany national security information that should have been kept secret all we're finding out from even the highest little secret of the pentagon papers in the lowest level secrets and meetings accused of is. unethical behavior misbehavior by the u.s. foreign by u.s. foreign policy we're showing our corporations. and the government work closely together the support corporate profit rather the public interest were showing all sorts of inappropriate behavior by people as i like secretary say clinton who ordered us to mass to spy on u.n. officials and they came to meetings in the united nations that's illegal yet she's not being prosecuted manning who is accused of the century telling the truth is being prosecuted facing life in prison while people who commit war crimes and other crimes are not being prosecuted at all. turn now to some other stories making headlines across the globe taliban suicide bombers have targeted a police headquarters in northwest pakistan killing four officers injurin

congress has all of the bells and none of the whistles truth seeker's want from the days of the pentagon papers to wiki leaks and bradley manning the rules of the game seem to be changing so far informers losing their voice in the u.s. . but a month multi-billion euro bailout in greece may be made happy by some of the markets for the moment but it's also sent shock waves through the country and now it seems as though greece may default after all on democracy so is the cash strapped country to become the euro zone's first colony next door in just a bit. and it's wednesday february twenty second five pm here in washington d.c. i'm lucy catherine of and you're watching r.t. now we begin today with afghanistan where at least seven people have died and dozens were wounded in clashes with the qur'an burnings at a nato military base that incident has sparked days two days of anti western protests across the country with thousands taking to the streets both the nato general and the white house apologize for the burning here's the white house spokesman jay carney yesterday we apologize yeah people in th

has all the bells and the none of the whistles the truth seeker's and you want your days of the pentagon papers to wiki leaks and bradley manning the rules of the game seem to be changing so are informers losing their voice in the us. our. our our our the multi-billion euro bailout in greece may pacify the markets for the moment but it's also sent shock waves throughout the country and now it seems that greece may be faulty after all and democracy is a cash strapped country to becoming one of the euro zone's first colony can explore that issue in just a moment. good evening it's wednesday february twenty second four pm here in washington d.c. i'm lucy catherine of it watching our team. now at least seven people were killed in afghanistan today in clashes between security forces and demonstrators protesters there were outraged over the burning of the koran at a nato military airbase and the incident to spark two days of anti western protests across the country with thousands taking to the streets both a top nato general in afghanistan and the white house apologize for the burning here's jay carn

with the pentagon, the famous book is "the pentagon papers." it is a book of lies about the pentagon lying. i am always suspicious. one of the pentagon spokespeople -- you know he is telling the truth, because that is when he starts to sweat. i believe that are trying to get the pentagon spending under control. i believe if the right truly believe in fiscal responsibility, the pentagon is the golden example of fiscal irresponsibility. it is also one of the largest corporate welfare states. i think the cuts that have been called for now are not actually cuts. they are cuts against future spending. they are just trying to stop the increase of spending. they have said that are going to try to get half a billion more off. the question is -- i think president obama -- is he going to spend the political capital to do this? i do not know. it is up in the air. if he is forced to cut the budget, i think his base will want to see more cuts to the pentagon than social security or medicare. that will keep the pressure on for him to do that. tavis: to have r

ellsberg was hailed as a hero by the public for leaking information that became known as the pentagon papers classified documents he helped author that revealed what was actually happening in vietnam both were. already revealed to the public what the public should have known from the government itself. important knowledge important knowledge now often stifled both on and off the battlefield and the military or an is sexually assaulted or of years or even rate she's supposed to go through the chain of command which will actually harm her and stead of helping her outside of the military policies are also being drawn up to protect corporations the so-called whistleblower improvement act if passed would actually harm whistleblowers requiring them to report misconduct to their employer first before going to any regulatory agencies it would also remove any incentives to do so our government and . businesses are still intricately lane to it's hard to tell them apart both now working harder than ever to keep their secrets out of the public eye in washington christine for now r.t. . and we can take s

conference will begin and in just a few hours there will be a bradley manning panel featuring pentagon papers author daniel ellsberg as well as and right and ray mcgovern and one of those people in attendance will be activist cindy sheehan she joined me earlier from berkeley california and gave me a preview of the conference. live there an interesting format her one thing it's very. organic and so i think we're going to have a lot of interesting things come out of the conference but there is a panel of specifically about. bradley manning today like you said was ray. ellsberg and bradley manning that his case was so tragic because a i think people who have been paying attention to what's going on over in iraq and afghanistan and all these years nothing he nothing that he allegedly. leaked was a surprise to anybody but as you said daniel ellsberg has lived a long full life and he did something very heroic and helped and the vietnam war are and he's been outside of prison brat bradley. and him up in prison for the rest of his life which is just really to me and it's heartbreaking and heart wrenc

the man credited with leak pentagon papers during the gulf war. >>> daniels has died after decades in law enforcement. he began his career in vallejo in 1975 and also worked in concord and lodite. the lodite police department reported his death on their website. >>> county administrators used this super sunday to get their word out about college. they kicked off a statewide campaign to talk to parents and students at african american churches. he wants to make sure kids know how to prepare for college and how important it is for their future. >>> if you look at the unemployment statistics about 22% of the people who don't have a college degree are unemployed. if you look at the people who have a bachelor's degree it's only about 6%, so there's a strong message in that. >>> reed is also handing out information about how affordable it is to go to a university. >>> a mississippi lawsuit against facebook is headed to california as part of a facebook's cookies case. brook ruthlidge tracked her browsing. she said this had happened after she logged out of facebook. the case brings together 1

countless major news stories were broken in the past several decades as a result of leaks from the pentagon papers to the abuses at abu ghraib so that's a move that i think we need to applaud because journalists have to stick together they have to defend each other fight for their rights if they want to be able to keep the public informed without fearing government backlash but even here we have to remember that there's obviously some picking and choosing going on this is after all the same new york times that used leaks from wiki leaks and that later turned against them but as the obama administration's war leaders continues everybody should be on guard because as this case points out not even journalists are safe. now we often talk about the increasing use in reliance on unmanned aerial vehicles or drones you've by our military our cia our law enforcement agencies and soon to be coming with the approval of domestic drone use in the u.s. media organizations commercial companies who knows who else issues of legality the ethics of killing with the push of a button privacy concerns all these things

in the pentagon papers that was released you know in several newspapers back in the seventy's and in a lot of ways for a while at least maybe not by the government by of it by the general public daniel ellsberg was thought of as a inspiration as a hero what has changed what's changed is the attitude of the united states the government has become more and more secretive and more and more concerned about its own employees sharing these secrets with the public when i see secrets a matter of air quotes really because it's not so much that these are instruments of national policy or things that need to be kept quiet to protect people's lives or the country in fact what they are are embarrassments to the government that they just wish to keep behind wraps lets it's not just the government i mean we're going through a period right now where you know the government either seems unwilling or unable to respond to some of the wall the wrongdoing on wall street so when we think about these huge wall street corporations we think about people at the top who made decisions that you know consciously

most famous whistleblower from you know my parents' generation daniel ellsberg who wrote the pentagon papers the government didn't like him but he. was hailed as a hero do you think that there's been a big change that society doesn't see bradley manning in the same way they see danielle's for well you know i think that there has been a change in the way that the government's rebranded leakers and whistleblowers instead of you know daniel ellsberg was called the most dangerous man in america but the obama administration has taken it a step further and actually charged six people bradley manning is one of them under the espionage act and threatened them with life imprisonment and that you know takes things to a whole new level because now whistleblowers they not only have to worry about losing their careers losing their livelihood losing their friends and sometimes their family they have to worry about losing their freedom and that is a different level of nefarious retaliation that a lot of whistleblowers and intelligence community are facing now this bill that i talked about the whistleblower

know what's the wisdom behind this when daniel ellsberg defended himself in the sixty's over the pentagon papers he added classic whistleblower defense but i don't know how that would play with you know a military court and david coombs seems to have earned bradley manning's trust so far and also i would note that we don't really know what the defense strategy is it probably would have been a mistake for combs to lay all his cards on the table during the pretrial hearing so we've only sort of got the basic outlines of it and i think many much of that may have had to do with coombs didn't know because the government really hadn't produced everything that could have turned over everything what the government has against manning so i think we're still in a bit of a cat and mouse game so i hesitate to say what the defense strategy is let alone criticize it at this point now how do you think this plays into the broader war on whistleblowers that the obama administration has been waging i just played the clip of jake tapper giving jay carney a hard time do you think that he has a point that you know t