Ellsberg's book "Secrets" is a great read, describing his evolution and eventual decision to smuggle out the Xerox copies of the Pentagon Papers. In 2008 when

Ellsberg's book "Secrets" is a great read, describing his evolution and eventual decision to smuggle out the Xerox copies of the Pentagon Papers. In 2008 when I was helping organize the Get FISA Right protests on my.barackobama.com, some email went across the list from somebody named Daniel Ellsberg. I sent him mail saying "you probably get this all the time, but by any chance are you the Daniel Ellsberg?" Much to my delight, it was, and we struck up an email conversation. Wow!