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KopOut commented on the blog post Floyd Abrams’ Abuse of Power
My biggest issue with Abrams’ piece? He equates Assange with Ellsberg. Assange hasn’t “leaked” anything. If you want to compare Assange to anyone in the Pentagon Papers story, it would be the New York Times.
Here is but one example:
“The diplomatic volumes were not published, even in part, for another dozen years. Mr. Ellsberg later explained his decision to keep them secret, according to Sanford Ungar’s 1972 book “The Papers & The Papers,” by saying, “I didn’t want to get in the way of the diplomacy.”
Julian Assange sure does. Can anyone doubt that he would have made those four volumes public on WikiLeaks regardless of their sensitivity? Or that he would have paid not even the slightest heed to the possibility that they might seriously compromise efforts to bring a speedier end to the war?”
Assange isn’t the one doing the leaking!
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