Pentagon Papers

Four decades after the New York Times published the Pentagon Papers, supporters of Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, parallels to the motives that drove Daniel Ellsberg of the Pentagon Papers to publish the alleged transfer of secret government documents on the website Wikileaks, which they released simultaneously in several newspapers Manning.

Indeed, the Pentagon Papers, published 40 years ago this day, were higher than those of any classified intelligence materials published by Wikileaks by Bradley Manning Support Network. President Obama said that "Ellsberg was made ​​of a different basis" than it was in the Wikileaks notes. "That's right," Mr. Ellsberg said. "Mine was top secret."

After the Pentagon Papers leak, which is a record for the intention of the government to the American public of U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia created mislead, Ellsberg was charged with 12 federal criminal counts and faces a possible 115 years in prison. Ellsberg eventually dismissed all charges in court, arguing that the court "for all" of government conduct that "contrary to the sense of justice. "