Trust Issues

Trusting Trump Shows a ‘Divorce From Reality’

The original Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg on government lies, public trust and when to break an oath

Bryan Walsh
GEN
Published in
7 min readJun 4, 2018
Photo: Bettmann/Getty

BBefore Edward Snowden or Chelsea Manning, there was Daniel Ellsberg. In 1971, Ellsberg leaked what became known as the Pentagon Papers, secret Defense…

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Bryan Walsh
GEN
Writer for

Journalist, author, dad. Former TIME magazine editor and foreign correspondent. Author of END TIMES, a book about existential risk and the end of the world.