Recounting the Heroism of Daniel Ellsberg

Glenn Greenwald dedicates most of this episode of System Update extolling the heroism and moral integrity of Daniel Ellsberg, who died yesterday of liver cancer.

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As you might expect, Ellsberg and Ed Snowden met each other and admired each other, as you can see and here in this extraordinary discussion involving Glenn Greenwald, Ed Snowden and Laura Poitras:

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And finally, yesterday’s tweet by Ed Snowden, sharing a March, 2023 statement by Daniel Ellsberg regarding the most typical purpose of the U.S. document classification system:

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Erich Vieth

Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.

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