Block Quote by Floyd Abrams

I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and…

— Floyd Abrams

Say the Pentagon Papers, - that material went much deeper. It went into internal government planning back for twenty - five years. Those are…

— Noam Chomsky

In the Pentagon Papers case, the government asserted in the Supreme Court that the publication of the material was a threat to national security.…

— Alan Dershowitz

“One of its analysts was Daniel Ellsberg, who at the time was back in the States compiling the report that—after he leaked it to…

— Mark Bowden

In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped and trusted…

— Hugo Black

In hindsight, Watergate was a curse as well as a blessing for American journalism. The courageous reporting of the 'Post' and the 'New York…

— Lionel Barber

The crusades of Vietnam and Watergate seemed like a good idea at the time, even a noble one, not only to the press but…

— Howard Fineman

“Reporters were ill paid in those days and lacked the resources in staff or money to dig deeply into McCarthy's charges. The Washington press…

— James T. Patterson

Before Watergate and Viet Nam, the American public, as a whole, believed everything it was told, and since then it doesn't believe anything, and…

— Daniel Keys Moran

I saw that publishing all over the world was deeply constrained by self-censorship, economics and political censorship, while the military-industrial complex was growing at…

— Julian Assange

In my estimation, there has not been in American history a more important leak than Edward Snowden's release of NSA material, and that definitely…

— Daniel Ellsberg

Right after 9-11, as far as I know, one newspaper in the United States had the integrity to investigate opinion in the Muslim world:…

— Noam Chomsky