Daniel Ellsberg, one of the most significant anti-war whistleblowers in American history, revealed Thursday that he’s been diagnosed with terminal cancer and has about six months to live.
Ellsberg ― who rose to prominence after leaking the Pentagon Papers to the media in 1971, revealing that multiple U.S. presidents had systematically lied to Congress and the American people about the circumstances around the Vietnam War ― shared his inoperable pancreatic cancer diagnosis in a lengthy letter on Twitter.
I wrote this letter recently to my friends in the antiwar and anti-nuclear movements. I see it’s being circulated, so I’ve decided to share it here. For all of you working on these issues, thank you, and please keep going! pic.twitter.com/8BIerLHD2U
— Daniel Ellsberg (@DanielEllsberg) March 2, 2023
The soon-to-be 92-year-old also reflected on his role in the historic leak, saying that when he clandestinely made copies of the Defense Department’s documents, he “had every reason to think I would be spending the rest of my life behind bars.” Though he was charged under the Espionage Act and faced a potential 115 years behind bars for his actions, he was ultimately spared from any punishment because of governmental misconduct and illegal evidence-gathering.
“I was able to devote those years to doing everything I could think of to alert the world to the perils of nuclear war and wrongful interventions: lobbying, lecturing, writing and joining with others in acts of protest and...
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