Scott Horton
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January 1, 2010 – Daniel Ellsberg – The Scott Horton Show – Episode 1077
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1:00:35Now PlayingDaniel Ellsberg, the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers, discusses the losing battle of Robert Byrd and Edward Kennedy (who both presided as senators over the Tonkin Gulf Resolution in 1964) to defeat the Iraq War Resolution in 2002, LBJ's decision to escalate the Vietnam War despite the prescient predictions of disaster by advisor Clark Clifford, the doublethink prospect of destabilizing Pakistan in order to stabilize it, how "effective" counterinsurgencies often provoke civil war, the re-arrest of Israeli whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu, the underestimation of Israel's nuclear arsenal and the inadequacy of currently proposed treaties on nuclear weapons.
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