The Importance of Leaks in the Nuclear War

You will always be associated with one extraordinary decision you took to leak the Pentagon papers. My intent at the time was to put out more important papers I felt, he says. You released this trove of documents which gave a long history to US involvement in Vietnam over four administrations. In doing so you must have known that there would be massive legal consequences for you. He adds: "I thought this is 7,000 pages of top secret documents I'll go to prison for life"