Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻💻🧬 on Nostr: How #NeilSheehan Really Got the #PentagonPapers Sheehan accomplished one of the ...
How #NeilSheehan Really Got the #PentagonPapers
Sheehan accomplished one of the greatest journalistic coups of the 20th century. He had obtained the #Pentagon Papers, the #DefenseDepartment’s 7,000-page secret history of the #VietnamWar, which revealed that the government had been lying to the American people about the brutal conflict since it began. It was first mass #leak of classified documents in modern #journalism, four decades before #WikiLeaks and #EdwardSnowden.
https://theintercept.com/2023/10/07/pentagon-papers-daniel-ellsberg-neil-sheehan/
Sheehan accomplished one of the greatest journalistic coups of the 20th century. He had obtained the #Pentagon Papers, the #DefenseDepartment’s 7,000-page secret history of the #VietnamWar, which revealed that the government had been lying to the American people about the brutal conflict since it began. It was first mass #leak of classified documents in modern #journalism, four decades before #WikiLeaks and #EdwardSnowden.
https://theintercept.com/2023/10/07/pentagon-papers-daniel-ellsberg-neil-sheehan/