The New York Times' recent decision to publish diplomatic documents obtained by Wikileaks, and the debate over the public's right to know versus the potential threat to national security, echoes the landmark 1971 decision by The Washington Post to publish what became known as the Pentagon Papers:
"The Espionage Act can apply to WikiLeaks, and I think that there's a pretty good argument that it would apply to WikiLeaks. The language of the statute is very broad and it bars the unauthorized possession or control over basically classified information by outsiders, which they have reason to believe could be used to the injury of the United States."
-- ATTORNEY FLOYD ABRAMS, November 2010
"Even if the court lets us go ahead and print, the government might still bring criminal charges against the [Washington] Post, under the Federal Espionage Act.... I'm convinced the government can make a substantial case against [the Post] if something damaging slips into the newspaper."
-- ATTORNEY BRIAN KELLY, June 1971
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L.A. Theatre Works invites you to revisit -
Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers
Starring John Heard as Ben Bradlee, Susan Sullivan as Katherine Graham, and Gregory Harrison as Brian Kelly.
 In the late 1960's, a classified government study of the Vietnam War revealed that the U.S. had misled the public regarding its intentions in Southeast Asia. Yet the Nixon administration continued to paint an optimistic picture of the war effort while sending more and more young Americans into the conflict. One of the document's contributors, Daniel Ellsburg, decided that the public needed to know the truth about Vietnam, and leaked the study to the press. The result shook America to its core and challenged the First Amendment. Plus! - Both hours include panel discussions with key figures from the era of the Pentagon Papers and Watergate, including journalist Carl Bernstein, former White House counsel John Dean, and Daniel Ellsburg himself. |
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COST: FREE!
Length: Two hours
(can be played in 1 hr segments)
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