Daniel Ellsberg: Edward Snowden was right to flee (Page 1 of 6) By Daniel Ellsberg Sunday, Jul 7, 2013 Many people compare Edward Snowden to me unfavorably for leaving the country and seeking asylum, rather than facing trial as I did. I don’t agree. The country I stayed in was a different America, a long time ago. After the New York Times had been enjoined from publishing the Pentagon Papers — on June 15, 1971, the first prior restraint on a newspaper in U.S. history — and I had given another copy to The Post (which would also be enjoined), I went underground with my wife, Patricia, for 13 days. My purpose (quite like Snowden’s in flying to Hong Kong) was to elude surveillance while I was arranging — with the crucial help of a number of others, still unknown to the FBI — to distribute the Pentagon Papers sequentially to 17 other newspapers, in the face of two more injunctions. The last three days of that period was in defiance of an arrest order: I was, like Snowden now, a “fugitive from justice.” mobile.washingtonpost/rss.jsp?rssid=4223411&item=http%3a%2f%2fwashingtonpost%2fopinions%2fdaniel-ellsberg-nsa-leaker-snowden-made-the-right-call%2f2013%2f07%2f07%2f0b46d96c-e5b7-11e2-aef3-339619eab080_mobile.mobile&cid=-1
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