How quickly we forget

Daniel Ellsberg, who released the Pentagon Papers, reminds us of why Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Information, and Freedom of the Press is so important.

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From Wikipedia:

As an editor of the New York Times was to write much later, these documents "demonstrated, among other things, that the Johnson Administration had systematically lied, not only to the public but also to Congress, about a subject of transcendent national interest and significance". They revealed that the government had knowledge, early on, that the war could most likely not be won, and that continuing the war would lead to many times more casualties than was ever admitted publicly. Further, the papers showed the government had lied to Congress and the public.