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Daniel Ellsberg je americký aktivista a bývalý vojenský analytik americké armády.

Narodil se v Chicagu do židovské rodiny. Vystudoval Harvardovu a Cambridgskou universitu. Ve 28 letech jej přijala korporace RAND Corporation. V roce 1961 postuloval Ellsbergův paradox , v témže roce krátce navštívil také Jižní Vietnam. V dalších letech se stal expertem na nukleární strategii a jedním z předních plánovačů Studené války. Působil i v soukromém sektoru. Dne 4. srpna 1964 začal pracovat v Pentagonu pod Robertem McNamarou. Jeho úkolem bylo shromažďovat a analyzovat data o vojenském působení americké armády v zahraničí a poskytovat zprávy pro generalitu i prezidenta. V roce 1967 byl zařazen do tajného projektu Montauk, analyzujícím předchozí válečné konflikty, tehdejší strategická a taktická rozhodnutí i komunikace vlády s občany v relaci k probíhající Vietnamské válce. Okolo roku 1968-9 dospěl k rozhodnutí dostat tyto materiály před americkou veřejnost, což se mu během následujících dvou let s pomocí dalších lidí podařilo. V roce 1971 na něj dopadlo soudní stíhání podle „špionážního zákona“ s navrhovaným trestem 115 let a osobním zájmem prezidenta Richarda Nixona jej zničit. Kvůli procesním chybám a nezákonnému shromažďování důkazů byl v roce 1973 zproštěn viny a naopak Nixon za konspirace proti němu zaplatil v aféře Watergate. Po kariéře v Pentagonu se pro americkou společnost postupně stal archetypem whistleblowera, nepřestal v aktivismu proti pozdějším válečným konfliktům a napsal několik knih o své práci a svých postojích. V roce 2006 získal cenu Right Livelihood Award. Wikipedia  

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“The American public was lied to [about the Vietnam War] month by month by each of these five administrations [Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon]. It's a tribute to the American public that their leaders perceived that they had to be lied to. It's no tribute to us that it was so easy to fool the public.”

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Hearts and Minds (1974), a documentary of the Vietnam War [1:17:35 onward]

“We weren't on the wrong side. We are the wrong side.”

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Hearts and Minds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearts_and_Minds_(film) (1974), a documentary of the Vietnam War

“I took that opportunity to tell him something that, er, I had long thought of telling somebody that was about to enter the world of really high secrecy. And I said, 'Henry, you're about to get a lot of clearence higher than top secret that you did not know existed. That's going to have a sequence of effects on you. First, a great exhileration that you're getting all this amazing information that you didn't know even existed. And the next phase is you'll feel like a fool for not having known about any of this. but that won't last long. Fairly soon, you'll come to think that everyone else is foolish. What would this expert be telling me if he knew what I knew? So in the end, you stop listening to them.”

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On talking to Henry Kissinger about the effects of gaining high security clearence after Kissinger's first National Security Council with then president Nixon. 'The Most Dangerous Man in America - Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers' 2009 Documentary.

“The question really arises is it a republic if you can keep it, question have we kept it? And the answer is no! No we have not kept it. Since 2001 we have in effect an elected monarchy. And ah, meaning a country which Nixon's view 'when a president does it, it is legal'. The president says it's not illegal. That is the attitude long after Nixon of John Yoo, who was the advisor to George W. Bush, of David Addington, Bush Cheney's legal advisor. Essentially there are no limits on presidential power except those which he chooses to put on himself. Obama following on, has in effect decriminalized torture which is as illegal and criminal as anything can be under international law and domestic law, a number of domestic laws and international laws, which we have ratified to investigate, and follow-up if there is any credible charge. Obama has chosen not to investigate or indict any higher up for that process of torture.”

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WHISTLEBLOWER TOUR! Daniel Ellsberg, Jesselyn Radack & Thomas Drake, April 8, 2014, found at 1:48:08 - 1:49:31 https://www.c-span.org/video/?318762-1/challenges-facing-whistleblowers,THE

“That was a documentary!”

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An exclamation Ellsberg made to a fellow government official, after they both watched the film Dr. Strangelove.
Zdroj: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/10/movies/10kapl.html?pagewanted=2&_r=0

“EVERY attack now made on WikiLeaks and Julian Assange was made against me and the release of the Pentagon Papers at the time.”

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http://www.ellsberg.net/archive/public-accuracy-press-release