Whistleblower, anti-war activist Daniel Ellsberg a contender for 2019 Nobel Peace Prize
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Whistleblower, anti-war activist Daniel Ellsberg a contender for 2019 Nobel Peace Prize
- Title: Whistleblower, anti-war activist Daniel Ellsberg a contender for 2019 Nobel Peace Prize
- Date: 28th September 2019
- Summary: Daniel Ellsberg speaking on about the war in Iraq and the echoes of the war in Vietnam. WASHINGTON D.C., USA (FILE - MAY 2005) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (REUTERS) ELLSBERG READING BOOK ELLSBERG LOOKING AT PICTURE IN BOOK SHOWING HIM AND HIS WIFE PATRICIA ELLSBERG, AND CROWD, AFTER HIS CASE WAS DISMISSED IN 1973. HEADLINE IN IMAGE READS: ''Extra - Ellsberg case dismissed'' (SOUNDBITE) (English) LEAKER OF PENTAGON PAPERS, DR. DANIEL ELLSBERG, SAYING ''So many Americans, both military and civilian over there (in Iraq) feeling just the way I did then, that they're over there to help the people of this country, as kind of allies, brothers, big brothers, paternalistic attitude and don't really understand why they're being shot at.'' (WHITE FLASH) (SOUNDBITE) (English) LEAKER OF PENTAGON PAPERS, DR. DANIEL ELLSBERG, SAYING "With the absolute lack of WMDs, the nuclear weapons and the biological weapons, the fact that the government was lying was perceived unmistakably earlier than it was in Vietnam. It really took years to realise for the public how much they had been lied to in Vietnam. In this case, it was pretty obvious after about a year. But it hasn't ended the war. In a way it's almost as if the President is so expected to lie at this point that people don't hold it against him."
- Embargoed: 12th October 2019 09:18
- Keywords: Vietnam papers leaks Daniel Ellsberg Richard Nixon Watergate Nobel
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- Country: USA
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Daniel Ellsberg, a former military intelligence contractor who leaked the "Pentagon Papers", a secret government history of the Vietnam War in 1971, is a contender for the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize.
Born on April 7, 1931, Ellsberg is an American economist, anti-war activist and former United States military analyst.
In 1971, whilst working for the RAND Corporation, Ellsberg gave rise to a national political controversy by releasing the Pentagon Papers - a top-secret study of the U.S. government decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War - to The New York Times and other newspapers.
In 1973 he was put on trial charged with espionage, theft and conspiracy, carrying a total maximum sentence of 115 years. But due to evidence of governmental misconduct and illegal evidence-gathering, Judge William Matthew Byrne Jr. dismissed all charges against Ellsberg on May 11, 1973.
He has since won the Right Livelihood Award in 2006 and was awarded the Olof Palme Prize in 2018.
The Nobel Peace Prize will be announced in Oslo on Friday, October 11, at 1100 a.m. (0900 GMT) and the prize, worth 9 million Swedish crowns ($1.12 million), will be handed over on December 10, 2019.
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