“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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Thank you.

Jan 11, 2021 · 12:58 AM UTC

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I’ve been friends w/ Dan for 2 decades. He was the only person to reach out the me when I was under criminal inv’n for “leaking” to the press abt gov torture aft 9/11.
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