{"id":720,"date":"2010-12-08T12:34:07","date_gmt":"2010-12-08T12:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/apagansblog\/2010\/12\/daniel-ellsberg-on-assange.html"},"modified":"2010-12-08T12:34:07","modified_gmt":"2010-12-08T12:34:07","slug":"daniel-ellsberg-on-assange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/apagansblog\/2010\/12\/daniel-ellsberg-on-assange.html","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Ellsberg on Assange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.balloon-juice.com\/2010\/12\/08\/a-distinctive-perspective-on-assange\/\">From Daniel Ellsberg<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div>&#8220;EVERY attack against Asaange and on @Wikileaks was also made against me and release of the PENTAGON PAPERS.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Thomas Jefferson would agree:<\/div>\n<div><!--StartFragment--><span style=\"font-size:13.0pt;font-family:ArialMT\">&#8220;The diffusion of<br \/>\ninformatio\u00adn and the arraignmen\u00adt of all abuses at the bar of public reason, I<br \/>\ndeem [one of] the essential principles of our government\u00ad, and consequent\u00adly<br \/>\n[one of] those which ought to shape its administra\u00adtion.&#8221; &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bartleby.com\/124\/pres16.html\">1st Inaugural Address,<\/a> 1801<\/span><!--EndFragment-->&nbsp;<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Choose your sides.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>UPDATE<\/b><\/div>\n<div>Assange <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/view\/2010\/12\/07-1\">in his own words<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>UPDATE 2<\/b><\/div>\n<div>Looks like many of us can take pleasure in the first round <a href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/ian-welsh\/why-assange-and-wikileaks-have-won-round\">being a win <\/a>for Wikileaks and Assange.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Daniel Ellsberg: &#8220;EVERY attack against Asaange and on @Wikileaks was also made against me and release of the PENTAGON PAPERS.&#8221; Thomas Jefferson would agree: &#8220;The diffusion of informatio\u00adn and the arraignmen\u00adt of all abuses at the bar of public reason, I deem [one of] the essential principles of our government\u00ad, and consequent\u00adly [one of]&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Daniel Ellsberg on Assange - A Pagan&#039;s Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/apagansblog\/2010\/12\/daniel-ellsberg-on-assange.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Daniel Ellsberg on Assange - A Pagan&#039;s Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"From Daniel Ellsberg: &#8220;EVERY attack against Asaange and on @Wikileaks was also made against me and release of the PENTAGON PAPERS.&#8221; 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