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Podcast: 4PR - Voice of the People
Episode: Don't extradite Assange
Description: Daniel Ellsberg, the man who leaked the “Pentagon Papers” about the Vietnam War, defended Julian Assange at his London extradition hearing on Wednesday.
Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times and other papers in 1971, told the court WikiLeaks’ disclosures had shown Americans how they had been misled about US action in Iraq and Afghanistan, just as his leaks, which also revealed previously secret information, did about Vietnam.
Ellsberg referred to the Collateral Murder video, showing an Apache helicopter killing a dozen people, including two Reuters news staff.
“I was acutely aware that what was depicted in that vid...