Ellsberg saying that breathless NYT piece on Neil Sheehan that was going around yesterday is a mix of old news and BS.
This story all appears in my father’s 2002 memoir, “Secrets.” He was reluctant to hand over the papers to Sheehan without assurance NYT would publish. Eventually he handed them over, not knowing Sheehan had already copied. Otherwise, the final 2 grafs of the story are nonsense.
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“Now It Can Be Told” runs the headline on a breathless @nytimes story of how Neal Sheehan got the Pentagon Papers from my father @DanielEllsberg. Sheehan wanted to counter the usual (accurate) narrative that my father gave the papers to the Times. . . nytimes.com/2021/01/07/us/pe…
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Jan 10, 2021 · 9:36 PM UTC
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