Salon’s Glenn Greenwald rolls out the online opinion & news outlet’s audio presentation. The debut of Salon Radio features Greenwald’s interview of Daniel Ellsberg.
From the July 25, 2008, Salon Post:
Knowing that he was risking life imprisonment, Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times in an attempt to alert the public to what the Government was doing (he did so only after numerous members of Congress refused his pleas to make those documents public). The NYT then waged an epic battle with the Nixon administration for the right to publish those papers, resulting in one of the most important First Amendment victories in Supreme Court history. For his efforts, Ellsberg was subjected to extensive warrantless eavesdropping by the Nixon White House, had his psychoanalyst’s office invaded and searched at Nixon’s behest in an attempt to obtain incriminating information about him, and was arrested and then brought to trial where he faced life imprisonment for having leaked the report (though the charges were ultimately dropped as a result of the Nixon administration’s misconduct towards him).
Follow the read more link below to see the whole post and listen to the audio of the Ellsberg interview.
Look for more podcasts of Salon Radio with Glenn Greenwald, posted at Salon.com on Mon, Wed, & Friday @ 1:PM CST.
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