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The Most Dangerous Man in America

submitted by fissionchips

1 decade 4 years 1 month 2 weeks ago

The 90 minute documentary was a 2010 Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary Feature.

http://www.metafilter.com/96416/Risking-everything

Synopsis: In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg, a leading Vietnam War strategist, concludes that America’s role in the war is based on decades of lies. He leaks 7,000 pages of top-secret documents to The New York Times, a daring act of conscience that leads directly to Watergate, President Nixon’s resignation and the end of the Vietnam War. Ellsberg and a who’s-who of Vietnam-era movers and shakers give a riveting account of those world-changing events in POV’s The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers by award-winning filmmakers Judith Ehrlich (The Good War and Those Who Refused to Fight It) and Rick Goldsmith (Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press).

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Nice sift. Been wanting to see this.

Got it love it. A great documentary everyone should see.

*controversy *news *law

Adding video to channels (Controversy) - requested by MrFisk.

*quality *news *law

Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by MrFisk.

Adding video to channels (Law, News) - requested by MrFisk.

NadaGeek says...

best post i've seen on the sift in awhile ,
thank you !

Duffman says...

Thank you for sifting this. I enjoyed it immensely.

*quality

This video has already declared quality - ignoring quality request by MrFisk.

Oh, you motherfucker. *promote

Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Friday, October 8th, 2010 6:59am PDT - promote requested by MrFisk.

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Tags for this video have been changed from 'Daniel Ellsberg, Vietnam War' to 'Daniel Ellsberg, Vietnam War, classified, documents, secret, leak' - edited by calvados

Best quote at 1:02:56.

"The press said we can take a look at this, we can make a valid judgement about what serves national security, and we can be and will be independent from our government."

Damn, the US media had a pair back then. I hope todays media shills wince when they look in the mirror in the morning.

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