Tag: Nixon Administration

Daniel Ellsberg: Espionage Charges Against Assange Are Most Significant Attack on Press in Decades

As the Justice Department charges WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with 17 counts of violating the Espionage Act, we speak to Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg. In 1971, he was charged with violating the Espionage Act for leaking a top-secret report on U.S. involvement in Vietnam to The New York Times and other publications. At the time, Ellsberg faced over 100 years in prison. He tells Democracy Now!, “There hasn’t actually been such a significant attack on the freedom of the press … since my case in 1971.”

View the complete May 24 article with video on the Democracy Now! website here.

John Dean Among the Witnesses at Brett Kavanaugh Hearing

The following article by Niels Lesniewski was posted on the Roll Call website August 30, 2018:

List is replete with law professors galore, as well as a couple solicitors general

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh will be in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee next week for his confirmation hearing. Credit: Tom Williams, CQ Roll Call file photo

Senate Judiciary Democrats are calling John W. Dean, best known as Richard Nixon’s White House counsel, as one of their witnesses for the confirmation hearings of President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee next week.

Dean might well be the headliner for the minority side, who have questions about nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s views about the limits of executive power.

The Supreme Court confirmation hearings begin Tuesday morning with opening statements and introductions from former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice and prominent lawyer Lisa S. Blatt, as well as Ohio GOP Sen. Rob Portman.