Daniel Ellsberg: Secrets - Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers

[leeleonor1]

Who ever commented what people will do to write a book! Can you! It was not abt a book it was our right out of school in the rice patties getting mushed and killed! With out a reason to satisfy these deaths! The corruption! You do not see what is happening MLK say the bravest man is that which he is going to jail but must bring out the truth! Do not make a joke of history many died here and the count there lie! Walk in someones shoes before you defile a great brave man! Manning to!

[leeleonor1]

This is Daniel Ellberg my hero We protested Vietnam war and the Pentagon papers did it!! That is what need now!!

[barkulator]

I lost my voice asking for a raise.

[nothadnotbad]

what someone will do to sell a fucking book



[CypressPhotoStudio]

End the Fed

[leeleonor1]

DOES IT MATTER GAY A BRAVE MAN, WE WERE GETTING MASSACRED IN PROTESTING. THIS MAN WAS WHAT PUSHED NIXON OUT OF OFFICE. WATERGATE, THEY CAUGHT THEM IN DANIELS PSYCHIATRIST OFFICE, END OF ONE WAR LISTEN TO HIS FOCUS..THANK YOU DANIEL

[RPenta]

When will WE ever learn?

[sr71ablackbird]

keep in mind of any conspiracy, is to discredit them in the press, then to destroy their lives and reputations of those who intend to reveal its true purpose in order to allow zero credibility to the one revealing the truth.

[letnofleshglory]

The Bible says, "If you dig a pit for someone else, you fall into it yourself I see Nixon fell into his own pit! Again, the Bible proves Truth! All you have to do is wait a little while and they will all be judged!

[letnofleshglory]

No wonder Kissinger was so upset! He's out to reduce the world's population to 500K! That means 80% of all humans (not to mention the innocent animals) will be destroyed!

[sr71ablackbird]

@letnofleshglory yup, even his report NSSM-200 will prove that, not to mention the population reduction that is literally inscribed on granite slabs in 8 different languages in Elliston, Georgia called the American Stonehenge of the Georgia Guidestones. So, it's literally written in stone which was funded by an a mysterious individual that went by the name of R.C. Christian.

[Belzitz]

Ola.

I liked to see the transcription of this video. Please. I dont understand everything of this video. Someone could do that ?

[idamanseni]

america is also a nation of gridlocks...

[idamanseni]

it is heartening besides the pursuit of happiness, americans do realized the pursuit of truth is also parallel.

[MrPhuho]

Iam a vietnamese. So in the Vietnam war,my view,bcós of the hard information between the world and Vietnam.It's hard to find the true information,this is a main reason that why most of American people didnt knew the fake of Vn war.if they know that,maybe,Vietnam war could finish soon.

[antmayfield]

Nixon on his five different youtube accounts tried to kill this video in the press.

[auslov]

@antmayfield WAHT DOES NIXON DO WITH THIS?

[TheArkhamAngel]

@antmayfield Nixon has been dead for years, dumb ass.

[GungYoshi]

Richard Nixon disliked this

[chunkyification]

If everyone in positions of influence with a conscience went even a fraction as far as Daniel Ellsberg to defend and expose the truth of the condition we have blindly allowed ourselves to be penned into, that condition would not exist. Plus TV would be what it was intended to be for; to inform as well as entertain, as well as grow up!

[Louloe]

This needs to be a class in US High School, maybe even middle, so everyone has to hear it once, before they have a chance to drop out n tune out. Then things might change. Most he stated from 2002, flourished over the past nine years. : (

[blavatsky3]

this lecture was made 25th October 2002 the same day US Sen Paul Wellstone was assassinated for trying to stop war with IRAQ

[blavatsky3]

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[centurion180ad]

Why is there nothing in those papers, about the tons & tons of opium trafficked by CIA? Why is there nothing in those papers, about the deliberate targeting of noncombatants? Why is there nothing in those papers, about CIA arming and initiating the insurgency?

[itspeaks037]

the Pentagon - Peoples Health brothers & sisters

[Karrie1981]

I seen a documentary on Daniel Ellsberg on Netflicks...it just about put me in tears.

He's a brave, great man and deserves all the respect in the world.

[SugarTomAppleRoger]

Good on you Mr. Ellsberg. We really appreciate what you are doing.

New Year's resolution for us all - free Bradley Manning.

Peace and love to everyone. :)

[Karrie1981]

I love Daniel Ellsberg!!

[JasenGiudici2794]

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[faffaflunkie]

I don't understand how Kennedy could have realistically believed that the U.S. military advisory group (MAAG) could defeat a million man North Vietnamese army. Vietnam was a lost cause from the beginning and it did not take a genius (although Ellsberg WAS a genius) to see it.

[ScottishPEACEguy]

and now the u.s gov are saying on scottish tv that the man who owns WIKILEAKS is the most dangerous man on earth. but were not dumb

[sonvello]

October 19, 1988

My birthday :D

[darrylbusterblue]

the John F. Kennedy administration had planned to overthrow South Vietnamese leader Ngo Dinh Diem,

we where going to have more land and better e, we would have been a world power ,, fuckkkkk,,

[theater1961]

TREASON IS STILL PUNISHABLE BY DEATH....

[Megasromanos]

J.F. KENNEDY is a liar !!!

DANIEL ELLSBERG true HERO 

[Tullfree]

@Megasromanos you said J.F. KENNEDY is a liar , Well he was also a hero and gave orders to pull out of Nam 2 weeks later he was shot. Like Daniel said we are all capable of being a Hero and the worst. Go become a hero and recognize when others have been at a time in their past OK>!!!!!!?

[CarlaGreenMusic]

The general public was apathetic in Vietnam until the draft got instated. Our government learned a lesson. The draft doesn't work. Thanks to technological advances, we need fewer humans...Thus, can keep the machine going without the high profile...

[neurotek44]

daniel ellsberg for the president of u s and a!

[batfly]

Lost me at "AlCIAda is a real threat" dude we are so screwed if the people believe that.

[okeleke1]

America is very evil don't be deceive by their fake game , it's the very wicked state that ever live

[shillyshallyz]

@okeleke1 What would you reckon about the role of Canada in the Vietnam War?

I just dug up this: copy and Google:

• Quiet Complicity: Canadian Involvement in the Vietnam War. Victor Levant

???

[473009723]

The papers reveal that the war and the reasoning for being there was tungsten and titanium. The reason for the Afgan war? Lithium and Opium... End the Fed Res, end war...

[Tsnore]

It took nads to speak up prior to the Iraq invasion in late 2002 to early 2003. The vast majority of Americans swallowed the propaganda whole and fought back against those who were not of the faith! Learn my fellow Americans because it will come again.

[soylentgreenb]

People don't start wars, governments do.

[Shoshana01]

@soylentgreenb WRONG, WRONG, WRONG!!!!! Wars are begun and fought by frightened men.

[shillyshallyz]

@Shoshana01 WRONG. Read

Howard Zinn's

• A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present

Charles Higham's

• Trading with the Enemy: the Nazi-American Money Plot 1933-1949

Anthony C. Sutton's Trilogy

• Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution

• WALL STREET AND THE RISE OF HITLER

• Wall Street and FDR

^ That's what makes "America" = THE HOME OF ALL EVIL

[Shoshana01]

@shillyshallyz You're talking about events that lead to war, however I'm talking nabout the psychology behind the why wars begin. Fear of showing weakness in front of an aggressor or the larger world is the biggest cause of war.

[Shoshana01]

@shillyshallyz Take Hitler for example; he created a vast military industrial complex that massively reduced unemployment. He was so frightened of the negative impact of this upon the economy he had to invent a reason to use the military machine invested so much money in. If he didn't then Germany would be, quite literally, broke and he would've been removed from power. Ultimately it is the fear of losing power that starts wars.

[Shoshana01]

@shillyshallyz That then is why wars are started. The actual event surrounding the fear is irrelevant; it doesn't matter how the fear is produced the fact is war is never started by people who are not afraid. Fear my friend is the single most powerful emotion that we possess and it is no respecter of politics or position.

[shillyshallyz]

@Shoshana01 You might be right then.

Special Note. The American nation is the most COWARD of all nations because they are so "scared" all the time by smaller countries that they attack and invade only them, and their superpower army mostly conduct "fierce combats" preferably in civilian areas of "allied" territory which they came to "liberate" and "defend". Also note their infamous expert usage of DROP WEAPON owing to rampaging civilian areas...

;-)

[Shoshana01]

@shillyshallyz What makes you think that I was talking about the US in particular. I could if you wish, but you have shown the exact attitude that gets the US into so much trouble and to be quite honest with you, you deserve to bear responsibility every single US death that has occured through the promulgation of 'might is right'.

[shillyshallyz]

@Shoshana01 LOL and, mind you,

even facing unarmed civilians, the GIs were still so scared in "combat" that the friendly fire ratio states that 4 out of every 10 US casualties were due to their being so scared!

For proof, Google this

• NOTEBOOK Friendly fire estimates since WW2

You ought to be happy, because you were right about that special FEAR FACTOR!!!

[soylentgreenb]

It is precisely because of elective wars like world war I and vietnam that people were so reticent to fight necessary wars. Some "necessary" wars, like world war II, would have been extraordinarily unlikely without the destruction, economic and political, of world war I.

[HASSOUNA1970]

yeah but americans never learn, they live in a big lie

most are brainwashed

[MrJignaciortega]

"God" has to love this human.

The world needs Lovers, not Warriors.

[ImAsMadAsHell]

@MrJignaciortega I agree. we need to build bridges not walls

[RockaFellayo]

Great man. But anyone knows that US Government holds secrets from people, and behind all the military strikes and missions in fact they act in their own interest. Even if it was Bush, Obama or the next president is the same thing. They all act with the same blind mind, the same goal, and it's not for the great of the country. I know i`m not an american, but i know what i`m talkin about.

[SimonBolivarX]

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[Berialavrenti]

all US wars are based on lies!

even the ones that started with the attack on the lusitania and pearl harbor and ton kin.

[exenrontexas]

NOT the Revolutionary war and to some extend not the Civil war although I am amazed that hundreds of thousands of poor white men would fight and die for the wealthy slave-holding plantation's right to own SLAVES.

[ed11561]

Don't tell me...u worked for ENRON???

In what capacity?

[exenrontexas]

Since I was the only person to ever hold the position that I held, I decline to tell you since others with only a slight investigation would know who I am and I prefer the protection of anonymity. However, my area provided support services for the BOD and the senior executives for meetings, special events and off sites. I worked directly with the heads of the LOBs and the corporate execs and the board. There were a few and ONLY a few with whom I have respect.

[Berialavrenti]

the civil war is full of lies! they tell american children it was about the freedom of slaves!

hell, no! by that time the industrial revolution was in full swing and no slaves were needed.

if you paid any attention, the USA is doing the same now with fossil fuels and solar/nuclear power. all fairytales and chivalry myths!

it took the USA another 110 years to give blacks the same rights as whites!

every usa war starts and ends with lies!

[batfly]

@Berialavrenti

All wars period... don't label this as a US problem... the same people who own the US also own other countries.

[Berialavrenti]

@batfly

not all wars! the USA is too far from other countries and needs lies to paint a fake danger where other warwaging countries are faced with real danger, really close.

[sorrowiscool]

@Berialavrenti Dont forget the holocaust never happened we bombed German during ww2 cussing food shortages which cause the deaths of millions by starvation in the labor camps and out. The whole thing was just made to look like we killed so many but most died from typhus and starvation the united states piled the body's Ex. Buchenwald.

[sparklesforever07]

@Berialavrenti wow thats not true...... if you study american history seriously you would not make statements like that...for example the second world war was justified war that liberated germans from a Tyran. btw ( I am german and not american)

[skydome29]

@sparklesforever07 In which they waited foorrreeeevvvveerrr to do so.

[varnlestoff]

@Berialavrenti Naww, the war for independence was a real war. Also the civil war, but the civil war was the spark that ignited the ability for a centralized banking system for form, which would collapse economies, spark wars, and promote lies. The founding fathers would be face palming a America's failure to break off from the path that our founding fathers wanted to save us from.

[leeleonor1]

@Berialavrenti WHO CARES IF HE IS GAY WHO CARES, HE HAD CONSCIOUS WHICH OUR GOVERNMENT IS LOSING DAILY, WE ARE BACK IN THOSE DAYS NOW THOUGH THEY GET BEAT LESS I PRAY, CUZ WE GOT PULVERIZED... GOD BLESS LIBERTY IN AMERICA

[mzedong001]

@leeleonor1 agreed

[PhOeNiXpIoLe]

Not sure if his liberal or conservative thou

[PhOeNiXpIoLe]

Amazing, absolutely amazing American Partisan and vet.

[sevendayz1980]

But Vietnam war was ordered by Lyndon B. Johnson, a democrat. The hype against communist Vietnam started by JFK's administration. I thinks it's an illusion that Dem=good and Rep=evil. They're all same - one party against democracy.

[exenrontexas]

@sevendayz1980 It is true that JFK was rabidly anti-communist but he saw the conspiracy by conservative war mongers like Nixon to continue the build up in Vietnam and that is why he order Robert McNamara to REMOVE OUR TROOPS from Vietnam after the '64 election. You are correct that LBJ ordered McNamara to cancel those orders. LBJ had strong support from the war mongers at Brown & Root who is now known as HALLIBURTON.

[sevendayz1980]

Thanks for that, didn't know Brown &Root is now Halliburton. Have you seen the film the "Collapse"? I think it covers some interesting things about Halliburton. Well, what you said is the another reason for me to believe the illusion of two parties. Offshore drilling, Blackwater off the hook, more troops to Afghan, and increase in defense spending. Sounds like Bush doctrine right? But these are the things that Obama is doing. This is why I believe in America, we have one Party of Corporations

[exenrontexas]

There are many who voted for change with Obama and are now disappointed. Some of us expected investigations and arrests of BUSH WH members such as Rumsfeld and Gonzales. Were you aware that the oil from ANWR will go to ASIA to aid our enemies such as much of the Alaskan oil does today? Some claim that Iraqi oil doesn't come here either. It goes to Asia just like the huge tax breaks for the rich went to build factories for our enemies and hire NO Americans. Ross Perot was right.

[sevendayz1980]

And what happened to Ross Perot? He ran as an independent and the media painted him as some lunatic billionaire. Same goes for Ron Paul. He was the ONLY man in the Republican primary who spoke the truth, but both left and right disdained him. We live in society in which idiots such as Sarah Palin and Naci Peolsi get more attention and "news time" than men such as congressman Ron Paul.

[exenrontexas]

I worked for a bank that had Ross Perot as a director and I have video of his buy American speech and most of what he predicted, that the GOP and some Dems ridiculed) has come true. He may have had some goofy traits but he was a smart man. I suspect that he got a call from BUSH 41's CIA that threatened his life or his families life. I also suspect that they murdered Cliff Baxter, the ONLY Enron exec who had remorse, the day before he was to be deposed in a very suspicious manner.

[sevendayz1980]

The sad part is that mass media presented the case about Ross Perot's withdrawal from the race as some sort of "conspiracy theory". I too believe there was some sort of behind the scenes threats by Republicans and may be even from the Democrats as well. The last thing they want is a third party that challenges their control of the country.

[larry1369]

What we have to realize is that if Obama truly represented change he would not be elected. Cynthia McKinney represented change and they (AIPAC) conspired to make sure her seat was lost in the election. We will not get justice until we roll out the guillotines like the French and kick those foreign bankers out of the issuance of our money supply.

[nethoser]

@sevendayz1980 maybe right now you're right, but back in the day the GOP wasn't afraid to kill to get what they wanted: JFK, MLK, RFK, McGovern etc... You didn't see the dems offing ppl who got in the way of their agenda, and lets face it, LBJ was in the republican's pockets. His button might say Dem but his policies screamed republican.

[HaloMonkeys]

@ nethoser hey, JFK authorized the assasination of Ngo Dinh Diem, the president of south vietnam back in 1963. Assasinations are just the nature of the game, especially when the threat of nuclear war was always just a heartbeat away.

[exenrontexas]

Many do not believe that JFK was a rabid anti-communist. Just imagine if Diem had lived and negotiated power sharing with the Buddhists? Just imagine of Ho had got to talk to Eisenhower? Ho was an evil man but he was first a nationalist. We drove him to Moscow.

[HaloMonkeys]

That was the case; the Republican Party was once a party of sound reasoning with the goal of ensuring that tax money was properly spent and that the best interests of the state and its citizens were protected. Now it is a party of the ill informed, the ignorant, the arrogant and those who simply pursue their own political and financial interests to the detriment of the government and the citizens of the United States. Poor John McCain and the other moderates and fuck Palin and Scott Brown

[sevendayz1980]

I agree that Republican Party has lost its way. They bury their own members such as Ron Paul, who is trying so hard to get the party back on trail. However, they seem to be more interested in aligning their party image with talking heads like Sarah Palin and Rush Limbah. Instead of suggesting solutions to fix problems, they are spend more time to discredit Democrats, filibuster every policies, and repeating the same rhetoric that they themselves don't seem to believe in.

[exenrontexas]

I served TAD on the USS Turner Joy sometime after this event but NO ONE I met believed they were fired upon by the North Vietnamese Navy in Aug. '64 and Robert McNamara has testified those attacks were FALSE. LBJ started a war for blood and profit. Nixon was elected in '68 with the promise to end the war in Vietnam but it only ended in '75 with the fall of Saigon AFTER Nixon resigned in disgrace.

[ed11561]

Watch the movie..THE PENTAGON PAPERS

with JamesSpader it tells all from Truman to Nixon EVERYONE was involved.JFK even used the CIA to put out a hit on the S.Viet President.Unbelievable.

[exenrontexas]

I have seen it but the unavoidable conclusion is that EISENHOWER was right about the UNDUE influence of the Military-Industrialist Complex. They have spent TRILLIONS UNnecessarily on enemies UNrealized and used FEAR to control the America people. They were even able to convince America to invade the WRONG country using FEAR very much like Hitler did. Even JFK knew this and ordered McNamara to REMOVE OUR TROOPS FROM VIETNAM after '64 election and disband the CIA and stop the power of the FED.

[ed11561]

The Pentagon Papers was about to air on Network TV when it was immediately pulled and he rights to the movie were bought & the movie was never aired.Totally covered up.

I got my copy on btjunkie.c.. & downloaded it.

Eisenhower was spot-on & JFK was killed especially because he wanted to disband the CIA(COCAINE IMPORTERS of AMERICA.)

[ariq024]

a thru honest men

[4400735]

I second that, COM0fAek. Now more than ever, the rule of law needs to be reasserted.

You know, Richard Nixon, while a private citizen in the months before the 1968 election, actually sabotaged the peace talks that would otherwise likely have ended the Vietnam War; maybe they should have considered that an act of treason or a similar offence.

[COM0fAek]

nergvol wrote, "Read Pentagon Papers just a few years ago. Remember how this was the hot topic in its day, now setting on library shelf collecting dust. Events move on along with media."

Did we really move on or did we as a country just plain forget the important lessons from that era? I would argue the latter. Perhaps the more appropriate aphorism for that dusty book on the library shelf is the one that begins, "Those who fail to learn from history... ."

[mntePoint]

Can't wait to see the documentary "The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg", from Judith Ehrlich. From what I gathered from Democracy Now! this AM, Nixon was so insane as to think that the US should use nukes in Vietnam.

The Vietnam War was a proxy war between the US and China. Instead having world wars which would likely bring the end of humanity, the Globalists military industrial complex engages in proxy wars that are meant to never end. That is why the US is in Afghanistan.

[bapyou]

I just saw The Most Dangerous Man tonight at a theater in Santa Monica, CA. Ellsberg was on hand to answer questions afterwards. At his age, I have to say, he is all there, smart and sharp as ever. It's difficult to imagine a more engaged and astute observer of the political scene as it was and is today. He had much to say about Afghanistan.

I got to shake his hand. I told him it was an honor to have heard him speak.

[columbusclipper]

What a hero. This guy risked his ass for all of us.

[sr71ablackbird]

@columbusclipper that, he did, somewhat similar to what bradley manning did for wikileaks.

[sr71ablackbird]

The U.N.charter is NOT part of the Constitution of the United States, therefore the U.N. Charter is NOT the supreme law of the U.S. land. The Constitution of the United States.

[FRTothus]

@sr71ablackbird That's not what the law says. It is as much a part of our law as any other Congressionally-approved treaty. You would do well to know what you are talking about. It would save you from appearing ignorant.

[sr71ablackbird]

@FRTothus You would do well in reading the Declaration of Independence, The Constitution of the United States, The Bill of Rights and the Federalist Papers as it would save you from appearing as a pompous ass as the rest of the mainstream media spoon-feed you countless times a day. Get out of in front of the damned boob-tube start reading the H.R.s , S- bills and the damned Federal Register for christ's sake !!!

[YusefAsabiyah]

While reading the Pentagon Papers recently, I was amazed how illuminating they were for understanding the gov't's actions today. A lot of the wilder "conspiracy theory" accusations against contemporary US gov't don't seem either wild or unfounded when seen against these documented secret actions from 40+ years ago.

[WNanette]

3:22 DAN?! Who is this egocentric idiot, who has the temerity to call Mr Ellsberg "DAN"?!!

Do you really truly know why the plumbers were in DR Ellsberg's office that night in the Watergate Hotel?! Tell me Mr Self-Importance, what were they REALLY after?

Hint: 'poppy' Bush can tell you.

[Alanders333]

So you have read Russ Baker's Family of Secrets?

[ieruybvke]

this comment is completely irrelevant because it was written a week ago

[nergvol]

Read Pentagon Papers just a few years ago. Remember how this was the hot topic in its day, now setting on library shelf collecting dust. Events move on along with media.