Gregory's Server"After The New York Times began publishing the Pentagon Papers on Sunday, June 13, 1971, the nation was stunned. The response ranged from horror to anger to disbelief."
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/09/us/pentagon-papers-vietnam-war.html
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The Pentagon Papers case is an important reminder that journalists publish official secrets all the time. As overclassification continues to grow out-of-control, protecting that right has never been more important. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/09/us/washington-pentagon-papers-max-frankel.html Last year, we launched a permanent chair in the honor of our friend and hero Daniel Ellsberg, who passed away on June 16, 2023, in order to continue his life’s work of exposing the secrecy system and enabling whistleblowers to speak freely. |
The Pentagon Papers led to the most important #pressfreedom decision in the U.S. Supreme Court in the 20th century, which has provided broad protections to newspapers from government censorship ever since.
Read Justice Black’s stirring words: https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/403/713/