Special counsel Robert Mueller\u2019s investigation into Russian meddling in the U.S. elections seems to yield a new bombshell every week. Amid such high-profile revelations, we revisit a decades-old story that echoes to this day among the powerful in the nation\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n\n
This episode of Reveal tells the story of Daniel Ellsberg, a former government strategist responsible for leaking the Pentagon Papers \u2013 thousands of classified documents that called into question America\u2019s war in Vietnam. Our story juxtaposes Ellsberg\u2019s story with that of Robert Rosenthal, our former executive director, whose first journalism job exposed him to the top-secret documents. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n
Those papers are the subject of a new movie in theaters this holiday season. Steven Spielberg\u2019s \u201cThe Post\u201d depicts the Washington, D.C. paper\u2019s decision to publish the Pentagon Papers after the Nixon administration sued the first news organization to expose them, The New York Times.<\/p>\n\n
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