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In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg, a high-level Pentagon official and Vietnam War strategist, concluded that the Vietnam War was based on decades of lies. He leaked 7,000 pages of top secret documents to The New York Times, hoping to help stop the war he had helped plan.

The Pentagon Papers triggered a landmark struggle involving America’s newspapers, the president and the Supreme Court.

Ellsberg’s change of heart and decision to reveal the documents became part of a political conflict whose events led directly to Watergate, Richard Nixon’s resignation and the end of the Vietnam War.

Documentary: The Most Dangerous Man In America: Daniel Ellsberg And The Pentagon Files
Directed by: Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith
Production: Sideways Film (2009)

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20 Comments

@JdFortinJean 9 days ago

War is always a choice to get something you cannot get in a honest way; war is to benefit the ones behind the scene; war is never to make things better for the crowd; war destroys, hurts and traumatizes; why would you enrol to make a living out of hurting others? Better to be poor than joining the army

@k.girishacharya460 8 days ago

This documentary has come at the right time when US is waging imperial war in Gulf, Latin America

@DJPhantomRage 9 days ago

Government isn't here for us. Yet people still keep thinking those people are gonna help let me just vote them in.

@TruthHurts-o3j 5 days ago

In 1967, Australian Intelligence was refuting much of the US propaganda coming out of the Pentagon, to the extent that the PM at the time, Harold Holt, was threatening to go public with it and to pull Australian troops out of Vietnam. He took his usual morning swim at a beach at Portsea. He was an accomplished swimmer and scuba diver. He was never seen again. Later that day six staff from the US Consulate in Melbourne were whisked away to an unmarked plane waiting at the private section of Essendon airport.

@Touchofgrey53 11 days ago

One can draw a parallel between this and the Ed Snowden movies; Governments always have and always will lie to cover up the truth in order to save themselves.

@michaelbarlow5808 2 days ago

Good doc, the number of adverts though...

@s.lupton2727 1 day ago

Great documentary! Thanks

@stshack 5 days ago

To bring down the current president will require a troop of courageous men and women and for the congress and people to listen and ACT!

@Iwisha_Beechwood 1 day ago

Ellsberg mattered because he exposed what powerful people were doing behind closed doors when they thought no one would ever challenge them. Today, transparency is being dismantled, dissent is being punished, and loyalty is being treated as the only qualification for national security leadership. We need another Ellsberg.

@josh_gossett 10 days ago

Never trust anyone with everything

@michellelague7923 4 days ago

This is excellent!!

@philliesphilliesphillies 9 days ago

Great documentary. Daniel Ellsberg is truly a national hero in every sense of the word.

@pooorpeddler 9 days ago

Wonderful film.

@k.girishacharya460 8 days ago

First and most important quality to be a successful politician is to lie with a poker face without any shame 😮

@aT0000my 8 days ago

The arrogance of another WH administration, deceitful and war criminals in my opinion

@Iwisha_Beechwood 1 day ago

Kissinger calling ANYONE ELSE the most dangerous man in America is rich.

@spearson1793 9 days ago

Wonder if the film makers considered noting the May 1970 Kent State shootings.

@myjourneytosanity 7 days ago

Americans still using the same playbook.

@Iwisha_Beechwood 1 day ago

Robert McNamara lowered the bar during Vietnam so he could shove more bodies into a war machine that was already failing. These guys had low test scores, learning disabilities, poverty, trauma, you name it - and instead of helping them, the system said “perfect, send them to the front.” It was exploitation dressed up as patriotism, and it ruined thousands of lives.
McNamara’s “morons” = the government admitting it couldn’t win a war without lowering the standards so far they were basically drafting people who needed help, not rifles. It’s one of the darkest “solutions” ever cooked up by a man who thought spreadsheets could replace humanity.

@bettersleep151 6 days ago

There is more of us then there are of them. We the people have the power. We must quit Fighting each other and come together and make this country great again.