Why is no one comparing the WikiLeaks to the 'Pentagon Papers"? One would think

sinkingfeeling

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Mon Jul-26-10 02:53 PM
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Why is no one comparing the WikiLeaks to the 'Pentagon Papers"? One would think

the aim was the same. Will we have a US Senator with the guts to read this stuff into the record?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon_Papers

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WinkyDink

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Mon Jul-26-10 02:53 PM
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1. Plenty are. Google "Pentagon Papers leak". And I did, in another thread. :-)

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FSogol

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Mon Jul-26-10 02:54 PM
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2. They compared it to the Pentagon Papers on NPR this morning. n/t

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EFerrari

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Mon Jul-26-10 02:54 PM
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3. The actual left is. Amy had Dan on this morning for the whole hour.

:hi:

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Jackpine Radical

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Mon Jul-26-10 02:54 PM
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4. That comparison is about the first thing I thought of.

Let's hope its effects are equally profound in getting us out of a war.

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BootinUp

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Mon Jul-26-10 02:55 PM
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5. If you listened to todays press conf.

there was a question about that in fact. Gibbs made a good point as to the differences. The Pentagon papers were about policy, not raw intelligence from the ground.

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asdjrocky

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Mon Jul-26-10 02:56 PM
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6. Some of us are here.

I've brought it up as has a few others. Of course, I doubt MSM will catch up.

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babylonsister

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Mon Jul-26-10 02:56 PM
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7. Steve Clemons did this a.m....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433x389205

Steve Clemons: Mr. Obama's Vietnam: The New Pentagon Papers

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CJCRANE

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Mon Jul-26-10 02:58 PM
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8. AFAIK these papers only cover the Bush era

so the comparison isn't acccurate just yet.

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EFerrari

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Mon Jul-26-10 03:02 PM
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11. The Pentagon Papers covered an active war across administrations.

Yes, it is accurate. Unfortunately.

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Bluebear

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Mon Jul-26-10 02:59 PM
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9. NPR compared it to just that today! :)

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Tx4obama

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Mon Jul-26-10 03:00 PM
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10. WH says the docs are secret but NOT Top Secret. n/t

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gratuitous

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Mon Jul-26-10 03:03 PM
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12. I think the parallels are working out pretty exactly

We have the administration pooh-poohing the documents as nothing new. We have many in the popular media cowering in fear the Big Daddy Government will get mad and send them to bed without a nightcap. We have a few folks giving as honest an analysis as they can. We have still others bitching about Wikileaks and grandstanding. We have a few nodding knowingly, as if they knew this all along, but oddly didn't have what it takes to say anything beforehand. And we have a few conflating the release of these documents with hating America and the troops.

Every last one of these things I remember happening at the time the Pentagon Papers came out.

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Manifestor_of_Light

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Mon Jul-26-10 03:03 PM
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13. I remember the pentagon Papers.

I heard Daniel Ellsberg speak on the college circuit in the fall of 1972, when the FBI was looking for him.

I truly admire the man.

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