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We weren't on the wrong side. We are the wrong side.

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The effect of that is to poison the flow of information to the President himself and to create a situation where a President can be almost, to use a metaphor, psychotically divorced from the realities in which he is acting...

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Daniel Ellsberg

Daniel Ellsberg
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Born: April 7, 1931
Died: June 16, 2023 (aged 92)
Bio: Daniel Ellsberg was an activist and United States military analyst who, while employed by the RAND Corporation, precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of U.S. government decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War, to The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other newspapers.
Known for:
  1. Papers on the war (1972)
  2. Risk, ambiguity, and decision (1962)
  3. Doomsday Machine (2017)

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