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ProSense

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10. Ellsberg can say it, but

Reply to frylock (Reply #9)

Fri May 31, 2013, 03:31 PM

May 2013

there is nothing about what Manning did that rises to the level of the Pentagon Papers. Nothing.

He may very well have taken that route, but the notion that just because he says he would do it means it had the same impact or relevance is flawed.

There are people comparing James Rosen to Ellsberg.

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