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m spies. In many cases, whistle-blowers have accomplices who help them carry out their mission. For example, in 1969, the cel- ebrated whistle-blower Daniel Ellsberg, a military analyst at the Rand Corporation, had an accomplice, Anthony Russo, who had also worked at Rand. (Both were indicted by the government.) A
e, he co-founded WikiLeaks, a website in which secret documents could be anonymously sent and posted. The site received little public attention until Bradley Manning sent it several hun- dred thousand lowly classified U.S. military and State Department documents in April 2010. With these stolen documents, WikiLeak
om spies. In many cases, whistle-blowers have accomplices that help them carry out their mission. For example, in 1969, the celebrated whistle-blower Daniel Ellsberg, a military analyst at the RAND Corporation, had an accomplice, Anthony Russo, who also had worked at RAND. (Both were indicted by the government.) A
e, he co-founded Wikileaks, a website in which secret documents could anonymously be sent and posted. The site received little public attention until Bradley Manning sent it several hundred thousand lowly-classified U.S. military and State Department documents in April 2010. With these stolen documents, Wikileaks
ower Bradley Birkenfeld...”-- David Kocieniewski, “Whistle-Blower Awarded $104 Million by I.R.S.” New York Times, September 11, 2012 “Whistle-blower Daniel Ellsberg...”-- Martin Arnold, “Pentagon Papers Charges Are Dismissed,” New York Times, May 11, 1973 “FBI office in Media...”-- Mark Mazzetti, “Burglars Who T
ice intriguing is that there was no evident need for him to expose himself in this way. If he merely wanted to be a whistle-blower, he could have, as Bradley Manning did, anonymously sent the documents to journalists as “Citizen 4.” In fact, in late May 2013, that was exactly what he did. He sent Barton Gellman th
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