Remembering Daniel Ellsberg's Legacy of Whistleblowing and Truth-Telling

Daniel Ellsberg, the whistleblower who leaked the Pentagon Papers, passed away at the age of 92. In 2019, he spoke out against the Justice Department's indictment of Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, for violating the Espionage Act by publishing U.S. military and diplomatic documents exposing U.S. war crimes. Ellsberg warned that this was a direct attack on the First Amendment and a new front in President Trump's war on the free press. He urged government insiders to reveal dangerous truths being withheld by the government, at whatever cost to themselves, to mobilize change and prevent future wars and existential crises.