In the seminal Pentagon Papers case, involving a secret history of the Vietnam War, the Supreme Court blocked the Nixon administration’s efforts in1971 to stop the New York Times and the ...

Pentagon Papers whistle-blower Daniel Ellsberg has told BBC News he was the secret "back-up" for the Wikileaks documents leak, in case something happened to Julian Assange. This is the first time ...

Announcer: Birch Bayh was one of the Senators who thought the publication of the Pentagon Papers was the right thing to do. Birch Bayh: “The existence of these documents, and the fact that they ...

He’d just been nominated to the Southern District of New York by President Richard Nixon in April 1971, and confirmed by the Senate in May when the Pentagon Papers case landed on his desk.

Few journalists were better suited to make that case than Max Frankel (1930-2025 ... The Inside Story of the Pentagon Papers and Other Battles.” The Times (along with The Washington Post ...

He'd just been nominated to the Southern District of New York by President Richard Nixon in April 1971, and confirmed by the Senate in May when the Pentagon Papers case landed on his desk.