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Den store whistleblower og atomtruslen
Den store whistleblower og atomtruslen
I New York Review of Books bliver Daniel Ellsbergs nye bog The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner anmeldt af efterretningseksperten Thomas Powers. Hvis vi tager Powers først, så har vi med en 77-årig at gøre, som vandt amerikansk journalistiks store pris, Pulitzer, i 1971. Hædersmanden Ellsberg er 86 år og bør ikke kræve nogen yderligere introduktion. Han er økonom og blev kendt som whistlebloweren, der lækkede hemmelige papirer om USA’s deltagelse i Vietnamkrigen – Pentagon-papirerne. Du er med andre ord i gode hænder.
Daniel Ellsberg speaks out during a protest rally against NATO involvement in Yugoslavia in this April 23, 1999 file photo. When Pentagon Papers whistle-blower Ellsberg wrote a new memoir chronicling his decision to leak secret U.S. military documents exposing official lies about the Vietnam War, he had no inkling the United States could soon be at war with Iraq. A week after the October 2002 release of his book, "Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers, " Congress authorized President George W. Bush to wage war if necessary to disarm Baghdad. REUTERS/Photo by Mike Theiler/Files