Consortium News begins today a six-part series on Julian Assange and the Espionage Act.
Category: Secrecy
Revealing the Pentagon Papers in Congress — 7: The Verdict
In part seven of this eight-part series, the Supreme Court delivers its verdict in the case of Gravel v. the United States.
Revealing the Pentagon Papers in Congress — 6: Going to the Supreme Court
In part six of this eight-part series, Sen. Mike Gravel takes his case against President Richard Nixon to the U.S. Supreme Court, where Nixon has also sued Gravel.
What Mike Gravel Meant
What I learned from Mike Gravel are lessons ignored, even mocked, by the establishment, writes Joe Lauria.
Senator Mike Gravel Dies at 91
Former U.S. Senator Mike Gravel, who twice ran for president as an anti-war candidate and released the Pentagon Papers in Congress in June 1971, has died at age 91.
Revealing the Pentagon Papers in Congress — 4: A Pyrrhic Victory
In part four of this eight-part series, the implications of the Supreme Court decision in NYT v. the US leave Sen. Mike Gravel in more legal peril as he contemplates publishing the Papers outside of Congress.
Revealing the Pentagon Papers in Congress — 3: Reading the Papers
In part three of this eight-part series, Sen. Mike Gravel reads the Pentagon Papers during a Senate subcommittee hearing and the truth of what the U.S. was doing hit him hard.
Revealing the Pentagon Papers in Congress — 2: Getting the Papers
In part two of this multi-part series, Sen. Mike Gravel gets a mysterious phone call from someone saying he had the Pentagon Papers, which Gravel later agreed to accept just blocks from the White House.
Revealing the Pentagon Papers in Congress — 1: Top Secret
After publication of the Pentagon Papers was shut down, Dan Ellsberg leaked the top secret history to Sen. Mike Gravel. This is how Gravel got the Papers, what he did with them and what happened next. Part One.
JOHN KIRIAKOU: Perverted Prison Justice
Here’s an example of how the prison rape-elimination law gets violated; and not by other prisoners.