Top secret information is 'like toilet paper' at the Pentagon, says the Vietnam War whistleblower

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Daniel Ellsberg, the man who in 1971 exposed Vietnam War intelligence that stunned the country, doubts the leak of Pentagon documents last year on Discord poses any severe threats to US national security.

Ellsberg, who is 92 and battling pancreatic cancer, commented on the Pentagon's handling of classified information in a Tuesday interview with The Washington Post's Devlin Barrett.

"There is no reason to believe that it harmed American national security in any measurable way," he told The Post.

Public fears about the leak's consequences have been blown out of proportion because the US government tends to keep a "mystique of secrecy," he said, per The Post.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/top-secret-information-is-like-toilet-paper-at-the-pentagon-says-the-vietnam-war-whistleblower/ar-AA1am5Zr

Maybe you and MTG can get married. I hear she's available.

[Scrivener7]

1. He's 92 and has cancer. He did something good for us once. I say we give him a pass.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

4. I respect him for what he did back then

But he's wrong this go around.

[Ocelot II]

2. Don't be dissing Daniel Ellsberg; the guy's a hero.

He risked life imprisonment for espionage for releasing the Pentagon Papers in order to reveal that the government knew the Vietnam war was unwinnable.

[whathehell]

5. Even heroes can make mistakes. n/t