Daniel Ellsberg speaks about Iran - Part 2 (9/27/07)

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story I wrote about the speech. The date Aug. 4, 1964 still haunts Daniel Ellsberg, despite the passage of more than 40 years. He was a 33-year-old on his first day at the Pentagon as special assistant to Assistant Secretary of Defense John McNaughton. It also was the day the North Vietnamese navy allegedly fired 21 torpedoes at US naval vessels in the Gulf of Tonkin. Ellsberg was one of 100 people who saw top secret transmissions later in the day saying the attack never happened, yet ...