Posts Tagged ‘Daniel Ellsberg’

Daily Briefing—30th March 2010

Posted: 30 March 2010 by Editors in Daily Briefing
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Daniel Ellsberg and Gareth Porter on McNamara’s Gulf of Tonkin Scam (mp3)

Posted: 8 July 2009 by Editors in Political Science
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Daniel Ellsberg and Gareth Porter discuss the late-Secy. of Defense Robert McNamara’s role in hiding evidence regarding the Gulf of Tonkin Incident used to grant LBJ  authorization to use military force in Vietnam without a formal declaration of war. Mr. Ellsberg discusses the intelligence operations in North Vietnam to provoke blowback, the “Pentagon Papers” he leaked, and false-flag operations. (more…)