“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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Thanks, Robert. I was disgusted that so many “press freedom” advocates were lapping up Sheehan’s revisionism as if it were gospel. Thanks to you & @DanielEllsberg for (once again) correcting the historical record.
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