PdF 2010 | Daniel Ellsberg and Julian Assange: Whistleblowing, Then and Now

Renowned whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange discuss the power of transparency in the digital age at the 2010 Personal Democracy Forum conference in New York City. Assange participated by Skype video from Australia. it was the first time the two men had ever talked with each other. PdF curator Micah Sifry hosted the conversation.

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[noteatpig2getha]

He said, "I am naked from the waist down" not "I know you from the waist down". That's about as far as I got when I heard the quality of the skype link and went elsewhere.......

[Tony Stark]

...Wesley Clark is a part of the same system....its war thats

a mistake and purposely done to go into Pakistan and break that country

up the same way they did ... Afghanistan. Blame Bush, and Obama. They

sent them into war on False WMD, and Assange revealed the truth..PERIOD.

[TheMsAnthrope]

Is there a better audio recording of this anywhere?

[Tony Stark]

... the bigger question is

WHAT ARE PEOPLE DEFENDING...and WHY? All Assange did is reveal the truth,

and a Pentagon person assisted them. Its not Wikileaks going after Assange, its

people going after all the other Whistleblowers.

[Bean Cube]

Engineers, please make the Internet must faster so we can have more opportunities for them.

[Bean Cube]

We need a lot of leakers for evolving our civilizations because we don't want to repeat bad histories and wasting our lives. With consideration for each other, honest lives are more Intelligent, easier to understand and happier. Good for you, wikileakers.

[whatchaknow100]

gen wesley clark says on larry king that these whistleblower went about the wrong way doing this ,so what hes saying is that thier going to get alot of soldiers over in the war killed ,thats what hes saying ,blame them for you child getting killed by a civillian over in the war

[whereismybailouttv]

Set aside all of the conspiracy theories about the govt. killing Assange.

Instead, a question. Can he be picked up under the Patriot Act (or the other current and stupid laws)? If he is, then it's a battle of PR, money, power, attorneys and spin. Wikileaks vs. Obama (and Eric Holder). Who will the public support? Who will the MSM support?

There will be a huge jump in donations. Yet, will anything else change?

[MaxwellsDaemon]

I wish they had mentioned worrying trend in prior restraint of the press - so called 'super injunctions' which bar one from not only discussing a topic but also revealing that they have been restrained or are in litigation. Thus important discussions can be silenced without anyone being legally aware that anyone has been silenced. This was infamously used by an oil company beginning with T against the Guardian newspaper. It only came out when parliamentary privilege was threatened.

[anthonzi]

8:55 bullshit