
Daniel Ellsberg: Does the US military have too much power?
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Do You Think It Is Possible That You Could End Up on Trial Again?
I made that clear a year ago when I brought out a top secret study which had been two-thirds declassified but one-third not. On the Taiwan streets crisis, when the British economists had just had a cover story. I said, it's time to know what happened in 1958. So I put that out and said, this is top secret. Your papers referred to the fact that the US government had an active policy of embracing the idea of using nuclear strikes against China as going as far back as 1958? Yes, and before and after, by the way. So yes, this is an old story. Do you think it is actually possible that you could end up on trial again
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