| > But I'm far less confident that he would be treated fairly. Maybe, maybe not, but there is precedence in America for it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ellsberg > Daniel Ellsberg... precipitated a national political > controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, > a top-secret Pentagon study of the U.S. government decision- > making in relation to the Vietnam War, to The New York > Times and other newspapers. > > On January 3, 1973, Ellsberg was charged under the Espionage > Act of 1917 along with other charges of theft and conspiracy, > carrying a total maximum sentence of 115 years. Due to > governmental misconduct and illegal evidence-gathering, > and the defense by Leonard Boudin and Harvard Law School > professor Charles Nesson, Judge William Matthew Byrne Jr. > dismissed all charges against Ellsberg on May 11, 1973. |