In the Pentagon Papers case, Justice Byron R. White, joined by Justice Stewart, said “it seems undeniable that a newspaper” can be “vulnerable to prosecution” under the 1917 law.

There was a time, not so long ago, when we celebrated the press for doing its job of holding elected officials accountable ...

The Senate’s version of the “big, beautiful bill,” which passed Tuesday, includes a $6,000 tax deduction for Americans 65 or ...

But the post-Pentagon Papers era did not see an end to the war on whistleblowers and the journalists who published their revelations. In the wake of the September 11 attacks, that war escalated ...

The Pentagon Papers were created by an administration attempting to quietly rethink the quagmire that was the Vietnam War. But their publication in 1971, ...

In the summer of 1974, the Watergate scandal was raging as Congressional hearings revealed the shady dealings of the ...

As the Pentagon Papers later showed, the Defense Department also revised its war aims: “70 percent to avoid a humiliating U.S. defeat … 20 percent to keep South Vietnam (and then adjacent ...

Daniel Ellsberg, the U.S. military analyst whose change of heart on the Vietnam War led him to leak the classified "Pentagon Papers," revealing U.S. government deception about the war and setting ...

Learn about the secret documents known as the Pentagon Papers and how their leak exposed government decisions during a critical time in American history.

Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers, dies at 92 01:34. Daniel Ellsberg, the anti-war activist who copied and leaked documents that revealed secret details of U.S. strategy in the ...