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“Pentagon Papers” whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg weighs in on the case of U.S. Army P.F.C. Bradley Manning, who currently stands accused of leaking over 260,000 secret U.S. diplomatic cables to the website WikiLeaks. “I recognized someone who was in the same spirit as I was forty years ago,” says Ellsberg. “He’s a hero of mine.”

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This excerpt is taken from a program featuring Daniel Ellsberg discussing Howard Zinn’s final original book, “The Bomb.” It was recorded in collaboration with City Lights Bookstore, on September 29, 2010.