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n Jun 14, 11:51 pm, rst9 <rst9w...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Jun 13, 9:50 pm, "Guru BaBa RamDev , a Freedom Fighter
> against all Corruptions" <voivodv...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Vietnam War was a war of SELF DETERMINATION .
>
> > SELF GOVERNMENT and
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> > SELF IDENTIFICATION ,... VIETNAM for the VIETNAMESE peole.
>
> Tell that to Uncle Sam. His idea of "democracy and freedom" means "do
> as I say, not as I do".
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> > n Jun 13, 8:52 pm, rst9 <rst9w...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > > 40 years after leak, the Pentagon Papers are
> > > outhttp://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/06/12/national/...
> > > By CALVIN WOODWARD and RICHARD LARDNER, Associated Press
> > > Monday, June 13, 2011
> > > FILE - In this Saturday, April 1, 1972 file picture, Daniel Ellsberg,
> > > chief defendant in the Pentagon Papers case, addresses a crowd at the
> > > State Capitol in Harrisburg, Pa. following an anti-war parade that
> > > ended at the Capitol. The rally was also held in support of the seven
> > > defendants in the Harrisburg conspiracy trial. Forty years after the
> > > explosive leak of the Pentagon Papers, a secret government study
> > > chronicling deception and misadventure in U.S. conduct of the Vietnam
> > > War, the report is coming out in its entirety on Monday, June 13,
> > > 2011. The 7,000-page report was the WikiLeaks disclosure of its time,
> > > a sensational breach of government confidentiality that shook Richard
> > > Nixon's presidency and prompted a Supreme Court fight that advanced
> > > press freedom.
>
> > > (06-13) 18:18 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) --
>
> > > Call it the granddaddy of WikiLeaks. Four decades ago, a young defense
> > > analyst leaked a top-secret study packed with damaging revelations
> > > about America's conduct of the Vietnam War.
>
> > > On Monday, that study, dubbed the Pentagon Papers, finally came out in
> > > complete form. It's a touchstone for whistleblowers everywhere and
> > > just the sort of leak that gives presidents fits to this day.
>
> > > The documents show that almost from the opening lines, it was apparent
> > > that the authors knew they had produced a hornet's nest.
>
> > > In his Jan. 15, 1969, confidential memorandum introducing the report
> > > to the defense chief, the chairman of the task force that produced the
> > > study hinted at the explosive nature of the contents. "Writing
> > > history, especially where it blends into current events, especially
> > > where that current event is Vietnam, is a treacherous exercise,"
> > > Leslie H. Gelb wrote.
>
> > > Asked by Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara to do an "encyclopedic
> > > and objective" study of U.S. involvement in Vietnam from World War II
> > > to 1967, the team of three dozen analysts pored over a trove of
> > > Pentagon, CIA and State Department documents with "ant-like
> > > diligence," he wrote.
>
> > > Their work revealed a pattern of deception by the Lyndon Johnson, John
> > > Kennedy and prior administrations as they secretly escalated the
> > > conflict while assuring the public that, in Johnson's words, the U.S.
> > > did not seek a wider war.
>
> > > The National Archives released the Pentagon Papers in full Monday and
> > > put them online, long after most of the secrets spilled. The release
> > > was timed 40 years to the day after The New York Times published the
> > > first in its series of stories about the findings, on June 13, 1971,
> > > prompting President Richard Nixon to try to suppress publication and
> > > crush anyone in government who dared to spill confidences.
>
> > > Prepared near the end of Johnson's term by Defense Department and
> > > private analysts, the report was leaked primarily by one of them,
> > > Daniel Ellsberg, in a brash act of defiance that stands as one of the
> > > most dramatic episodes of whistleblowing in U.S. history.
>
> > > As scholars pore over the 47-volume report, Ellsberg said the chance
> > > of them finding great new revelations is dim. Most of it has come out
> > > in congressional forums and by other means, and Ellsberg plucked out
> > > the best when he painstakingly photocopied pages that he spirited from
> > > a safe night after night, and returned in the mornings.
>
> > > He told The Associated Press the value in Monday's release was in
> > > having the entire study finally brought together and put online,
> > > giving today's generations ready access to it.
>
> > > The Pentagon Papers chronicle failures of U.S. policy at seemingly
> > > every turn. One was a focused attempt from 1961 to 1963 to pacify
> > > rural Vietnam with the Strategic Hamlet Program, combining military
> > > operations to secure villages with construction, economic aid and
> > > resettlement.
>
> > > The report concludes the U.S. had not learned lessons of the past,
> > > namely that peasants would resist attempts to change their lives. The
> > > hamlet program "was fatally flawed in its conception by the unintended
> > > consequence of alienating many of those whose loyalty it aimed to
> > > win," it said.
>
> > > At the time, Nixon was delighted that people were reading about
> > > bumbling and lies by his predecessors, which he thought would take
> > > some anti-war heat off him. But if he loved the substance of the leak,
> > > he hated the leaker.
>
> > > He called the leak an act of treachery and vowed that the people
> > > behind it "have to be put to the torch." He feared that Ellsberg
> > > represented a left-wing cabal that would undermine his own
> > > administration with damaging disclosures if the government did not
> > > make him an example for all others with loose lips.
>
> > > It was his belief in such a conspiracy, and his willingness to combat
> > > it by illegal means, that put him on the path to the Watergate scandal
> > > that destroyed his presidency.
>
> > > Nixon's attempt to avenge the Pentagon Papers leak failed. First the
> > > Supreme Court backed the Times, The Washington Post and others in the
> > > press and allowed them to continue publishing stories on the study in
> > > a landmark case for the First Amendment. Then the government's
> > > espionage and conspiracy prosecution of Ellsberg and his colleague
> > > Anthony J. Russo Jr. fell apart in a mistrial.
>
> > > The judge threw out the case after agents of the White House broke
> > > into the office of Ellsberg's psychiatrist to steal records in hopes
> > > of discrediting him, and after it surfaced that Ellsberg's phone had
> > > been tapped illegally. That September 1971 break-in was tied to the
> > > Plumbers, a shady White House operation formed after the Pentagon
> > > Papers disclosures to stop leaks and smear Nixon's opponents.
>
> > > The next year, the Plumbers were implicated in the break-in at the
> > > Democratic Party headquarters in the Watergate building.
>
> > > Ellsberg remains convinced the mammoth report would have had less
> > > impact if Nixon had not temporarily suppressed publication with a
> > > lower court order and had not prolonged the headlines even more by
> > > going after him so hard. "Very few are going to read the whole thing,"
> > > he said in an interview, meaning both then and now. "That's why it was
> > > good to have the great drama of the injunction."
>
> > > The declassified report includes 2,384 pages missing from what was
> > > regarded as the most complete version of the Pentagon Papers,
> > > published in 1971 by Democratic Sen. Mike Gravel of Alaska. But some
> > > of the material absent from that version has appeared elsewhere.
>
> > > One volume missing from the Gravel edition and released Monday details
> > > U.S. miscues in training the Vietnamese National Army from 1954 to
> > > 1959. The U.S. sent more than $2 billion in aid to Vietnam then,
> > > nearly 80 percent for security.
>
> > > In words that echo today's laments about money misspent in Iraq and
> > > Afghanistan, the report says the U.S. did not get much in return.
> > > "Very little has been accomplished," the volume says.
>
> > > Bureaucratic compromises between the Pentagon and State Department
> > > also undermined the training program in Vietnam, according to the
> > > document. Increasingly, the U.S. was "selecting the least desirable
> > > course of action."
>
> > > The 40th anniversary provided a motivation for government archivists
> > > to declassify the records. "If you read anything on the Pentagon
> > > Papers, the last line is always, `To date, the papers have yet to be
> > > declassified by the Department of Defense,'" said A.J. Daverede,
> > > director of the production division at the National Declassification
> > > Center. "It's about time that we put that to rest."
>
> > > The center, part of the National Archives, was established by
> > > President Barack Obama in 2009 with a mission to speed the
> > > declassification of government records.
>
> > > If not with the same personal vendetta, presidents since Nixon have
> > > acted aggressively to tamp down leaks. Obama's administration has
> > > pursued cases against five government leakers under espionage
> > > statutes, more than any of his recent predecessors.
>
> > > Most prominent among the cases is that of Pfc. Bradley E. Manning, an
> > > intelligence analyst accused of passing hundreds of thousands of
> > > military and State Department documents to WikiLeaks. The
> > > administration says it provides avenues for whistleblowers to report
> > > wrongdoing but cannot tolerate unilateral decisions to release
> > > information that jeopardizes national security.
>
> > > Ellsberg served with the Marines in Vietnam and came back
> > > disillusioned. A protege of Nixon adviser Henry Kissinger, who called
> > > the young man his most brilliant student, Ellsberg served the
> > > administration as an analyst, tied to the Rand Corporation.
>
> > > To this day, Ellsberg regrets staying mum for as long as he did.
>
> > > "I was part, on a middle level, of what is best described as a
> > > conspiracy by the government to get us into war," he said. Johnson
> > > vowed in the 1964 presidential campaign that he sought no wider war,
> > > Ellsberg recalled, even as his administration manipulated South
> > > Vietnam into asking for U.S. combat troops and responded to phantom
> > > provocations from North Vietnam with
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