By Travis Pillow
Some call it “transparency.” The United States Government calls it a threat to national security.
Tonight at 8 p.m., the Civic Media Center will be showing “The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers,” a documentary about the man who wound up on President Nixon’s enemies list after exposing secret documents that revealed many of the dirty secrets of America’s involvement with Vietnam.
Ellsberg became the ultimate whistleblower; once they were published by the New York Times and the Washington Post, the papers helped fuel opposition to the Vietnam War.
Apparently, the military is afraid of anything like that happening again, so they’ve released a 32-page report detailing the threat posed by Wikileaks, a site that allows for the anonymous uploading of government documents. Here is that report in its entirety, courtesy of Wikileaks itself (who else):
The Fine Print encourages everyone to head down to the CMC this evening, for what is now quite a timely screening. Ellsberg has become a hero to all of us who believe that in a democracy, there should be no such thing as government secrets.
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