Daniel Ellsberg, leaker of the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times in 1971.
Lieberman says the Pentagon Papers case was wrongly decided, and that the New York Times should have been culpable.
Jay starts by introducing Ellsberg, who was prosecuted for releasing the Pentagon Papers, and asks about attempts to prosecute Assange.
Ellsberg says there has been some discussion that implies the Pentagon Papers leak was good but that WikiLeaks is bad.
In 1971, as a freshman senator critical of U.S. involvement in Vietnam, Gravel released 4, 100 pages of the Pentagon Papers and facilitated their publication.
Jay notes that the State Department is touring a group of movies around the world that includes a documentary about Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers.
The Pentagon Papers was another leak that had a major impact.
The diary has been widely compared to the Pentagon Papers, a leaked official history showing how Lyndon Johnson's administration had lied about its strategy in Vietnam.
The tapes were recorded in the White House in June and July of 1971, after the publication of the Pentagon Papers in The New York Times.
But - as opposed to the so-called "Pentagon Papers" - which were handed in hard copy to a journalist, "now you can take even more documents and give them to the whole world", he told AFP.
"She was one of the greatest citizens of our country of the past half-century, " said Robert McNamara, defense secretary under Kennedy and Johnson who was a major Vietnam policy maker during the period chronicled by the Pentagon Papers.
He said she would be most remembered for two events: publishing the Pentagon Papers in 1971 even after the New York Times was told it couldn't, and for hiring Bradlee and backing him up during the Watergate scandal.
This past year the unit has been embroiled in controversy for publishing a document dubbed "The Palestine Papers, " a play on the Pentagon Papers, which were leaked to The New York Times by a whistle-blower in the 1970s.
At one of its major 2008 conferences, for instance, the ACLU invited Daniel Ellsberg, the former Rand Corporation official who leaked the top secret Pentagon Papers regarding US involvement in Vietnam to The New York Times in 1971 to serve as it keynote speaker.
Far from being the Pentagon Papers redux, the larger truth is how closely the ground-eye view in these documents reinforces what U.S. officials were long saying: that the war wasn't going well, the Taliban were making gains, and a new and invigorated strategy was needed to combat them.
The grand jury that has convened in Alexandria, Virginia to decide whether Assange will be indicted in the U.S. has yet to make public any charges against him, but some have speculated on and called for his indictment under the same Espionage Act once used to prosecute Daniel Ellsberg for leaking the Pentagon Papers.
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