Pentagon Papers leaker Ellsberg Pleads to DoD Officials: Leak, Now.

The New York Times > Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1969, pushing forward a chain of events which lead to the end of the Vietnam war, made a personal plea to administration officials in the DoD: Leak, please. Rumsfeld is covering up, he says, but a greater public good must be served. Ellsberg points out, too, that had he had the conscience to leak in 1964 instead of 1969, there would have been 50,000 lives fewer lost.