Mike Gravel, a maverick two-term U.S. senator from Alaska (1969-81) and two- time presidential candidate who daringly released Daniel Ellsberg’s copy of the top-secret Pentagon Papers in Congress — thus securing the legal precedent for elected officials to inform the electorate on matters that are hidden under the guise of state secrets — has died More

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