Daniel Ellsberg's Downfall: A Trifecta of Shilling, Conspiracy Theories, and Lies - People's View [View all]

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Last week, I highlighted the connections between Glenn Greenwald, Edward Snowden, Wikileaks and the Freedom of the Press Foundation, a front-group that was conveniently set up by Greenwald and his cohort Laura Poitras (who interviewed Edward Snowden on camera) just a month before Snowden began contacting Poitras and Snowden. Greenwald and Poitras are both board members of this front group, as is Daniel Ellsberg of the Pentagon Papers fame.

Ellsberg penned an op-ed in the Washington Post yesterday defending Snowden's flight from justice, canonizing Snowden and dutifully serving up accolades to Greenwald and his employer (The Guardian), without once mentioning that he has at least a professional connection to Glenn Greenwald that could serve as a potential conflict of interest: Ellsberg sits on the Board of this front group with Glenn Greenwald. So much for transparency, I guess.

Regardless of how Ellsberg himself would like to paper over them - now that he has chosen to shill for an extreme front group - the differences between the leaking of the Pentagon Papers and the NSA documents are real, palpable, and important to the national debate. The Pentagon Papers were released to expose the lies the government had been telling the American people in prosecuting a war. Snowden's "revelations" have exposed nothing of the sort, because there isn't currently a war the government is fighting based on lies.

Be that as it may, the substance of Ellsberg's defense of Snowden's flight centers around something that is pure conjecture: when he leaked the Pentagon Papers, Ellsberg was allowed out on bail after surrendering to arrest, and then when the government's illegalities came to light, the case against him was dropped. In that time, he was allowed to freely speak out against the Vietnam war. Ellsberg claims that there is no chance that Snowden would be allowed out on bail. Based on what? Based on the pure power of Daniel Ellsberg's words? I mean, I am certain that Snowden may not be allowed out on bail now that he has proven himself to be a flight risk, but just what makes Ellsberg a sudden expert on bail hearings?

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