Daniel Ellsberg, one of the most famous whistle-blowers in living memory, came to the defence of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Wednesday in his legal fight to avoid extradition to the United States from Britain, arguing that the pair had “very comparable political opinions”.The 89-year-old, who is widely credited for helping to bring about an end to the Vietnam war through his leaking of the so-called Pentagon Papers in 1971, told London’s Central Criminal Court via a video link that…
from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3101880/pentagon-papers-leaker-comes-defence-wikileaks-founder-julian
Thursday, September 17, 2020
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