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This week’s Big Question:
Is Julian Assange the New Daniel Ellsberg?
The arrest of Daniel Ellsberg this weekend at a rally in support of WikiLeaks prompts us to ask whether the whistelblower site’s founder, Julian Assange is, well, the next Daniel Ellsberg. In the first video, Assange, whose site has published more than 400,000 secret documents, speaks with Ellsberg who in 1971 had leaked the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times. In common: Both men are intent on telling the truth about wars, both men turned to mainstream media to help distribute their information. The second video, Mark McArdle, CEO of tinyHippos, and CIGI Distinguished Fellow Paul Heinbecker find differences between Assange and Ellsberg. McArdle and Heinbecker agree that unlike the Pentagon Papers, the WikiLeaks cables represent an “indiscriminate” amount of information.
TWO VIEWS: Assange and Ellsberg and McArdle and Heinbecke
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