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 ...

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 ...

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, 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 ...

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

Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers that detailed U.S. actions during the Vietnam war, died Friday at this home in Kensington, Calif. He was 92. The cause, his family said in a ...

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 ...

Daniel Ellsberg, who died on Friday, of pancreatic cancer, at age ninety-two, became the father of whistle-blowing in America when he leaked the Pentagon Papers to the Times, in 1971.In the course ...