Daniel Ellsberg, a former military analyst and anti-war activist whose disclosure of the so-called Pentagon Papers revealed systemic US government deception about the Vietnam War, has died, his family ...

To the editor: I am grateful to The Times for Elaine Woo’s detailed obituary on Daniel Ellsberg. I was in graduate school when the Pentagon Papers came out in 1971 and had the opportunity to spend a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Daniel Ellsberg died on Friday at 92 years after a battle with cancer and barely six weeks after concluding 40 hours of interviews ...

On a warm evening almost a decade ago, I sat under the stars with Daniel Ellsberg while he talked about nuclear war with alarming intensity. He was most of the way through writing his last and most ...

He took part in White House machinations to stop leaks of classified information by overseeing an investigative unit that resorted to burglary. He then cooperated with Watergate investigators. By ...

Ellsberg will continue to speak directly to hearts and minds about the extreme evils of our time—and the potential for overcoming them with love in action. Daniel Ellsberg faces a battery of ...

Daniel Ellsberg faces a battery of microphones at a news conference in Cambridge on Thursday, July 1, 1971. (AP Photo) By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive ...

Whistleblower Dan Ellsberg joined us after the Justice Department charged WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with 17 counts of violating the Espionage Act for publishing U.S. military and diplomatic ...

Over the past 50 years Daniel Ellsberg remained an antiwar and anti-nuclear activist who inspired a new generation of whistleblowers. In his last interview with Democracy Now! in April, he spoke about ...

While it took 40 years for the Pentagon Papers to be declassified, as they were on June 13, Daniel Ellsberg suggested the timing might be perfect. “There’s never been a time, really, that the lessons ...

Daniel Ellsberg (left) unleashed a political crisis when he distributed the classified Pentagon Papers— extensive documentation on the United States’s extended, often secret involvement in Vietnam—to ...