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There's never gonna be many whistleblowers because the price is just too great. But if you ask what catastrophes could have been avoided by a whistleblower? All of them...none of them were unforeseen.
I just spent a year studying nuclear crises with high level access, higher than top secret... I had come across a great deal of lying... The difference here was I was seeing it in real time as it was happening.
I have to say, here, it gets personal. Avert disaster? Yes, I am focused more than other people, more than my wife or others on the possibility of catastrophe. And yes, that can be related to my experience of catastrophe when I was 15.
Every time I read it I’d come across a Top Secret stamp. So I’d been reluctant to get them to a copy shop. But now, Patricia was saying you gotta do it. And I would be going through page by page and scissoring off “Top Secret”
It's not the Pentagon Papers themselves that brought down Nixon... what brought down Nixon was his massive overreaction to the Pentagon Papers.
"Ok, what I'm about to say…. could put me in prison if I live long enough...by the way, you're recording it, I presume?"
A class of college students at the UMass Amherst, becomes the first group of researchers to take on Daniel Ellsberg's vast archive. For two students, it's more than a history project: It's a family story.
"In War, Truth is the first casualty." –Aeschylus