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Whistleblowing Nation, 03/2020Book Chapter
“I saw it first as a problem, next as a stalemate,” explained Daniel Ellsberg in his 2002 memoir on U.S. involvement in Vietnam, “then as a moral and political disaster, a crime.” When he had come to consider it “a crime,” he resolved “to expose and resist it, and to try to end it immediately” by releasing the Pentagon Papers, sacrificing a position at the heart of the U.S. national security establishment and “accepting the prospect of a life behind bars.” A criminal offense and custodial sentence were also on Richard Nixon’s mind in mid-June 1971, after the New York
