July 26, 2010
Daniel Ellsberg, who gained fame for leaking the Pentagon Papers to the press, stayed up last night into the wee hours reading the trove of Afghanistan documents and feeling affinity for the leaker, whomever it might be.
“He’s a guy who’s in the same state of mind I was in,” said Ellsberg in a phone interview. “I’ve sort of been waiting for somebody to do this for 40 years.”
Still, Ellsberg, 79, said he had mixed feelings about the release of so many documents. The classified military documents contain some 92,000 reports.
“To put out such a large amount of material is of some risk if you haven’t read it all,” said Ellsberg, reached in Mexico where he was attending a screening of “The Most Dangerous Man in America,” a documentary about his Pentagon Papers ordeal.
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