Conversation with Daniel Ellsberg: Evaluating Obama So Far
And he gets a bloody F…
By Joan Brunwasser [print_link] Dateline: February 16, 2010 Simulpost with OpedNews.com
Ellsberg
The Most Dangerous Man in America opened in theaters across the country this past weekend and is guaranteed to bring you up to speed. In it, whistleblower and activist Ellsberg is both star and narrator.
Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER)which exists for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. We aim to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Electronic (computerized) voting systems are simply antithetical to democratic principles.
A CAPSULE BIO ON DANIEL ELLSBERG:
http://www.ellsberg.net/
The rest is history, as they say.
A CAPSULE BIO ON DANIEL ELLSBERG:He attended Harvard University, graduating with a Ph.D. in Economics in 1962 in which he described a paradox in decision theory now known as the Ellsberg paradox. He graduated first in a class of almost 1,100 lieutenants at the Marine Corps Basic School in Quantico, Virginia, and served as an officer in the Marine Corps for two years. During this time, he deployed to Vietnam as a company commander. After his discharge, he became an analyst at the RAND Corporation. As a Vietnam expert, he was invited, in 1967, to contribute to a top-secret study ofclassified documents regarding the conduct of the Vietnam War that had been commissioned by Defense Secretary McNamara. These documents, completed in 1968, later became known collectively as the Pentagon Papers. Because he held an extremely high-level security clearance, Ellsberg was one of very few individuals who had access to the complete set of documents. They revealed that the government had knowledge, early on, that the war would not likely be won, and that continuing the war would lead to many times more casualties than was ever admitted publicly. Further, the papers showed that high-ranking officials had a deep cynicism toward the public, as well as disregard for the loss of life and injury suffered by soldiers and civilians….His personal site is at: http://www.ellsberg.net/The rest is history, as they say.
