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Daniel Ellsberg of the Pentagon Paper Fame Defends WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers about the Vietnam War in 1971, defended WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. “If I released the Pentagon Papers today, the same rhetoric and the same calls would be made about me,” Ellsberg said, according to the news organization Democracy Now! “I would be…