Whistleblowing Definition: This Top 6 Should Clear It Up For You

No. 2: The Pentagon Papers and Daniel Ellsberg

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Daniel Ellsberg, a former Vietnam combatant and a Pentagon official, was becoming increasingly disillusioned with the war and took it upon himself to put a stop to it. Given his position, he had access to several security documents, known as the Pentagon Papers, which described US’s involvement in the war in great detail and who clearly showed how the officials had been lying for years. At first, he kept the documents within his circle of friends but after the New York Times found out about them, he decided to release them to several newspapers. He surrendered himself, but was released after it was revealed that he had been illegally wire-tapped.