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by dkarl 4751 days ago
Daniel Ellsberg turned himself over to the authorities, was released on bail, and saw the charges against him thrown out. Today I imagine he would be held indefinitely in degrading conditions, brutally interrogated, and sentenced to decades in prison if the government ever bothered bringing him to trial.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/06/09/h...