{"id":188966,"date":"2021-08-16T12:00:53","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T11:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=188966"},"modified":"2021-08-12T08:52:03","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T07:52:03","slug":"a-conversation-with-daniel-ellsberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/08\/a-conversation-with-daniel-ellsberg\/","title":{"rendered":"A Conversation with Daniel Ellsberg"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Whistleblower Who Started It All<\/em><\/p>\n

For the Fourth of July, I reached out to an old friend, Daniel Ellsberg, to experiment with recording little conversations for you about big topics. Production quality will be a bit rough around the edges until I get the hang of it, but I hope you enjoy it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\"\"<\/a><\/em>Born in North Carolina in 1983 Edward Snowden, <\/em>former CIA officer and whistleblower, worked for the National Security Agency through subcontractor Booz Allen in the NSA’s Oahu (Honolulu) office, where he began collecting top-secret documents regarding NSA surveillance practices that he found disturbing. After he fled to Hong Kong\u00a0 newspapers began printing documents that he leaked to them, many detailing invasive spying practices against American citizens, world leaders, corporations and foreign governments through metadata collection of phone calls, email messages, social media activities, plus dissemination of malicious software and viruses throughout computers worldwide. The U.S. has charged Snowden under the Espionage Act but he is hailed around the world as a hero. He remains in exile in Russia, with the U.S. government working on extradition. <\/em>Snowden is the author of \u201c<\/em>Permanent Record\u201d and is the president of <\/em>Freedom of the Press Foundation<\/em><\/a>, a nonprofit that defends public-interest journalism in the 21st century. <\/em><\/p>\n

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Daniel Ellsberg is a former US military analyst who in 1971 leaked the Pentagon Papers, which revealed how the US public had been misled about the Vietnam War.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Go to Original – edwardsnowden.substack.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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