Daniel Ellsberg's Legacy as a Whistleblower and Advocate Against Censorship.

Before leaking the Pentagon Papers to the press, Daniel Ellsberg spent a year and a half quietly leaking them to leading antiwar senators and representatives, hoping they would publicize them, hold hearings, and insert them into the Congressional Record. However, the politicians all declined. Ellsberg's leak to the press changed Americans' understanding of the Vietnam War, but before that, he had walked into Sen. William Fulbright's Capitol Hill office, carrying two briefcases full of top-secret documents, hoping Congress and the public would see them.