Note from Daniel's son @MichaelEllsberg: with his blessing, I now maintain this account as a living memorial to Daniel's ideas and work.
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Jun 21, 2023 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Pundits are out praising my father as a way of denouncing @Snowden, @xychelsea, Assange, and modern whistleblowers by comparison. Daniel is on record vehemently rejecting praise of him used for this cynical purpose. Media, please at least mention that fact. --Michael E. 🧵⬇️
For example, the day my father died, @nytdavidbrooks and @CapehartJ were out making what Daniel called the "Good Ellsberg, Bad Snowden" comparison, which Daniel constantly denounced:
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Jun 20, 2023 • 17 tweets • 6 min read
💯 Daniel absolutely rejected what he called the "Ellsberg Good / Assange, Manning, Snowden Bad" media narrative that used him as a foil against them. Any journalist advancing this story should at least have the honesty to note that Daniel thoroughly rejected it -Michael E. 🧵⬇️
Daniel had particular scorn for @Gladwell's 2016 piece advancing this tale, using Daniel as a foil against @Snowden. He considered Gladwell intellectually dishonest for failing to mention Daniel's rejection of this view, which he had given to Gladwell. newyorker.com/magazine/2016/…
Jun 19, 2023 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
From @MichaelEllsberg: Dad used to joke that his "retirement plan" was federal prison. But he was only half-joking. In 2021, he dared the government to put him there, in his final act of civil disobedience, at age 90. Via @charlie_savage: nytimes.com/2023/06/18/us/…
Daniel's final unauthorized disclosure, to @charlie_savage of the @nytimes, in 2021. He intended this as a test case against unconstitutional applications of the Espionage Act, used against @xychelsea, Assange, @Snowden, and others: nytimes.com/2021/05/22/us/…
Jun 16, 2023 • 8 tweets • 5 min read
Mar 2, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
I wrote this letter recently to my friends in the antiwar and anti-nuclear movements. I see it’s being circulated, so I’ve decided to share it here. For all of you working on these issues, thank you, and please keep going!
Sep 29, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Biden should drop his appeal to extradite Julian Assange and dismiss all charges against him, on the new disclosures that Assange has been subjected to the same governmental crimes that led to the dismissal of my own prosecution half a century ago. 1/ news.yahoo.com/kidnapping-ass…2/ These governmental crimes include illegal, warrantless surveillance, conspiracy to "totally incapacitate me" and--in the words of my judge--"bizarre events" that "offend a sense of justice." All of these apply exactly to the just-revealed crimes against Assange.
