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Daniel Ellsberg Wants to Be Prosecuted Under Espionage Act

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In an exclusive interview, Ellsberg explains why he hopes the courts take on the law used to crack down on whistleblowers.

An aerial photograph of Hiroshima, Japan, shortly after the "Little Boy" atomic bomb was dropped on August 6, 1945. Photo: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty images “The whole idea is to kill the bastards,” Gen. Thomas Power, commander of America’s nuclear forces from 1957 to 1963, once said about the use of atomic weapons. “At the end of the war, if there are two Americans and one Russian, we win.” The hold this nuclear lunacy had on the top of the U.S. government is terrifyingly illuminated in a top-secret study of U.S. war plans newly publicized by famed whistleblower Daniel Ells

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