• Rodney Tiffen

16 June 2011Forty years ago this week, the New York Times began publishing the Pentagon Papers – until recently, the largest leak of all. In Inside Story, Rodney Tiffen recounts a tale of two leakers

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DANIEL ELLSBERG and Bradley Manning are probably the two greatest leakers of classified documents in history. Both acted out of conscience, but in other respects their actions are a study in contrasts. In 1971, Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers, the internally produced history of American policy in the Vietnam War. Last year, Manning allegedly leaked the Afghanistan and Iraq war logs and volumes of US government internal documents to WikiLeaks…

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