Six months ago, famed whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg died at the age of 92. Ellsberg became one of the most influential whistleblowers in history after he leaked the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times in 1971. The secret 7000-page history of US involvement in Vietnam, going back decades, revealed presidents and officials of both parties lying to the public and lying to each other. The leak made Ellsberg a top enemy of the government for years. Brooke takes a look back at her conversations with Ellsberg over the years and speaks with Tom Devine, legal director for theGovernment Accountability Project, about Ellsberg's legacy and the ways he changed public perception of whistleblowers in the United States.
This is a segment from our January 5 program, The Whistleblower Who Made History. It originally aired on our June 23, 2023 program, The Whistleblower Who Changed History.
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