{"id":7953,"date":"2010-11-01T00:00:15","date_gmt":"2010-10-31T23:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=7953"},"modified":"2015-03-13T14:47:01","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T14:47:01","slug":"daniel-ellsberg-secrets-vietnam-and-the-pentagon-papers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2010\/11\/daniel-ellsberg-secrets-vietnam-and-the-pentagon-papers\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Ellsberg: Secrets &#8211; Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>University of\u00a0 California Santa Barbara &#8211; Oct 25, 2002<\/p>\n<p>In 1971 Defense Department analyst, former U.S. Marine company commander and anti-Communist Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers to the media. In this talk, Ellsberg presents an explosive inside account of how and why he helped bring an end to the Vietnam War and Richard Nixon&#8217;s presidency. He also talks about the current potential for war with Iran and why he feels that would be a major mistake for the United States.<\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OF8nuvGyngU<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of  California Santa Barbara &#8211; Oct 25, 2002 &#8212; In 1971 Defense Department analyst, former U.S. Marine company commander and anti-Communist Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers to the media. In this talk, Ellsberg presents an explosive inside account of how and why he helped bring an end to the Vietnam War and Richard Nixon&#8217;s presidency. He also talks about the current potential for war with Iran and why he feels that would be a major mistake for the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whistleblowing-surveillance","category-short-video-clips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}