Daniel Ellsberg: Why There Aren't More Whistleblowers

In this weeks edition of Scheer Intelligence , Robert Scheer interviews activist and former United States military analyst Daniel Ellsberg.

Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971, delves into his reasons for becoming a whistleblower and explains why Richard Nixon didnt use nuclear weapons in the Vietnam War.

The conversation is a timely one, as Ellsbergs newest book, The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner, is a revelatory first-person account of the U.S. nuclear program in the 1960s. Ellsberg tells Scheer very little has changed since that era.

We were being lied into a hopeless, desperate, aggressive war, Ellsberg says of Vietnam, as happened in 2002, [with] our attack on Iraq.

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