That is what members of the anti-Bush left are calling for:
When Daniel Ellsberg, the defense analyst, leaked the Pentagon Papers to the press in 1971, it created one of the most significant newspaper stories — and battles — of the century. One thing it did not do was prevent the Vietnam War, although it may have shortened it. Now he is calling on officials within the government to leak “the Pentagon Paper of the Middle East” to modern reporters, to short-circuit another possible war.
Ellsberg’s challenge is found in the October issue of Harper’s magazine, to appear next week. E&P has obtained an advance copy.
The article is titled, “The Next War,” with the conflict in question a possible face-off between the U.S. and Iran. Ellsberg, based on unconfirmed reporting by Seymour Hersh and others, believes there is a “hidden crisis,” with government insiders aware of “serious plans for war with Iran” while “congress and the public remain largely in the dark.”
His remedy: “Conscientious insiders” need to leak hard evidence to the press and public, while risking their current and future employment, as he did in the early 1970s.
Desperate times do not always call for desperate measures.
But desparate people almost always do.
They would also be risking future incarceration, as well, which he doesn’t seem to mention.
And of course we have plans for a war with Iran. The planner types at the Pentagon would be criminally negligent in their duties if we didn’t. There are plans for invading Mexico stored away in dusty archives somewhere, too. That’s what planners do.
It’s a matter of whether or not we actually intend to attack Iran. Which is a whole different matter.
These treasonous bastards should be looking a firing squad in the face. That is the proper response to treason and incitement of treason in time of war isn’t it?