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Ellsberg Obituaries & Tributes

Daniel Ellsberg, Who Leaked the Pentagon Papers, Is Dead at 92, by Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 6/16/23

Daniel Ellsberg, former defense analyst who released top-secret Pentagon Papers, dies at 92, by Elaine Woo, Los Angeles Times, 6/16/23

Daniel Ellsberg, Who Leaked the Pentagon Papers, Dies at 92, by Harrison Smith and Patricia Sullivan, The Washington Post, 6/16/23

Vietnam-era Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, Who Leaked Pentagon Papers, Dies at 92, by Hillel Italie, Associated Press, 6/16/23

Passage: Remembering Daniel Ellsberg (video), CBS Sunday Morning, 6/18/23

Daniel Ellsberg’s Message to Us, and to Future Generations, by Martin E. Hellman, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, 6/16/23

A Father’s Legacy to His Son – and His Country, by Robert Ellsberg and Chris Zimmerman, Plough.com, 6/16/23

Reporter’s Notebook: Why the Pentagon Papers Leaker Tried to Get Prosecuted Near His Life’s End, by Charlie Savage, New York Times, 6/18/23

You Knew Daniel Ellsberg, Whistleblower. I Knew Him as a Film Fanatic, by Catherine Ellsberg, Washington Post Opinion, 6/18/23

Celebrating an Extraordinary American Life: Daniel Ellsberg, by Richard Falk, Counterpunch, 6/23/23

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Ellsberg Obituaries & Tributes

What Daniel Ellsberg Knew About Doomsday: Unilateral Sanity Could Save the World, by Norman Solomon, TomDispatch.com, 12/14/23

Daniel Ellsberg (1931 – 2023), by George Perkovich, Arms Control Today, July/August 2023

Daniel Ellsberg, Who Leaked the Pentagon Papers, Is Dead at 92, by Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 6/16/23

We’re Told Never to Meet Our Childhood Heroes. Knowing Daniel Ellsberg Proved That Wrong, by Glenn Greenwald, Rolling Stone, 6/16/23

Daniel Ellsberg, Former Defense Analyst Who Released Top-secret Pentagon Papers, Dies at 92, by Elaine Woo, Los Angeles Times, 6/16/23

Daniel Ellsberg, Who Leaked the Pentagon Papers, Dies at 92, by Harrison Smith and Patricia Sullivan, The Washington Post, 6/16/23

Vietnam-era Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, Who Leaked Pentagon Papers, Dies at 92, by Hillel Italie, Associated Press, 6/16/23

Passage: Remembering Daniel Ellsberg (video), CBS Sunday Morning, 6/18/23

Daniel Ellsberg’s Message to Us, and to Future Generations, by Martin E. Hellman, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, 6/16/23

A Father’s Legacy to His Son – and His Country, by Robert Ellsberg and Chris Zimmerman, Plough.com, 6/16/23

A Letter to My Father, by Michael Ellsberg, 6/16/23

You Knew Daniel Ellsberg, Whistleblower. I Knew Him as a Film Fanatic, by Catherine Ellsberg, Washington Post Opinion, 6/18/23

Reporter’s Notebook: Why the Pentagon Papers Leaker Tried to Get Prosecuted Near His Life’s End, by Charlie Savage, New York Times, 6/18/23

Celebrating an Extraordinary American Life: Daniel Ellsberg, by Richard Falk, Counterpunch, 6/23/23

My Reflections on Dan Ellsberg, a Man Who Helped End a Tragic War, by Morton H. Halperin, Responsible Statecraft, 6/17/23

Daniel Ellsberg’s Life Beyond the Pentagon Papers, by Ben Bradlee Jr., The New Yorker, 6/16/23

Daniel Ellsberg, Whistleblower Who Exposed Top-Secret History of the Vietnam War, Dies at 92, by Fred Kaplan, Slate.com, 6/16/23

Daniel Ellsberg Is Gone — But He Left Us an Important Message, by Norman Solomon, Salon, 6/16/23

Daniel Ellsberg Was One of History’s Most Consequential Figures, by Trevor Timm, The Guardian Opinion, 6/17/23

Remembering Daniel Ellsberg, Courageous Truth-Teller, by Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 6/16/23

Daniel Ellsberg, American Hero, by Chip Gibbons, Jacobin, 6/16/23

Remembering Daniel Ellsberg, Who Leaked Pentagon Papers, Fresh Air, National Public Radio, 6/23/23

Ellsberg and ‘The Process of My Awakening,’ by Patrick Lawrence, Scheerpost, 6/27/23

Berkeley Journalism Establishes Whistleblower Program in Honor of Daniel Ellsberg, Berkeley Journalism, 6/26/23

Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!, 6/20/23:

Watch the full hour of Amy Goodman’s Ellsberg tribute show on Democracy Now!, 6/20/23

PART ONE: RIP Daniel Ellsberg: “Most Dangerous Man in America” on Leaking Pentagon Papers, Exposing Gov’t Lies

PART TWO: Months Before Death, Daniel Ellsberg Warned Crisis over Ukraine & Taiwan Could Lead to Nuclear War

PART THREE: “The Doomsday Machine”: Confessions of Daniel Ellsberg, Former Nuclear War Planner

PART FOUR: Daniel Ellsberg’s Dying Wish: Free Julian Assange, Encourage Whistleblowers & Reveal the Truth

Against the Unthinkable: Life After Ellsberg, by Richard (RJ) Eskow, Absolute Zero, 6/21/23

Daniel Ellsberg, Who Leaked Pentagon Papers, Was a Prophet of Truth and Disarmament, by Fr. John Dear, National Catholic Reporter, 6/17/23

Thank You for Your Service, by Caitlin Johnstone, caitlinjohnstone.com, 6/18/23

How Daniel Ellsberg Opened the Door to One of the Most Consequential Climate Stories of Our Time, by David Sassoon, Inside Climate News, 6/20/23

Daniel Ellsberg, the Pentagon Papers Leaker, Had Roots in Metro Detroit, Cranbrook Schools, by Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 6/18/23  

Daniel Ellsberg (video) – Courage Is Contagious, Washington Post, 6/16/23

Secrecy and National Security Whistleblowing

By Daniel Ellsberg (originally published in Social Research)

I) Reflections on Secret-keeping and Identity

In the “national security” area of the government–the White House, the departments of state and defense, the armed services and the “intelligence community,” along with their contractors–there is less whistleblowing than in other departments of the executive branch or in private corporations. This despite the frequency of misguided practices and policies within these particular agencies that are both more well-concealed and more catastrophic than elsewhere, and thus even more needful of unauthorized exposure.

The mystique of secrecy in the universe of national security, even beyond the formal apparatus of classification and clearances, is a compelling deterrent to whistleblowing and thus to effective resistance to gravely wrongful or dangerous policies. In this realm, telling secrets appears unpatriotic, even traitorous. That reflects the general presumption–even though it is very commonly false–that the secrecy is aimed not at domestic, bureaucratic or political rivals or the American public but at foreign, powerful enemies, and that breaching it exposes the country, its people and its troops to danger.

Even those insiders who have come to understand that the presumption is frequently false and that particular facts are being wrongly and dangerously kept secret not so much from foreigners but from Congress, courts or the public are strongly inhibited from speaking out by an internalized commitment to keep official secrets from outsiders, which they have promised to do as a condition of employment or access. Continue Reading