By E&P Staff
Published: January 21, 2008 1:50 PM ET
NEW YORK “For the second time in two weeks, the entire U.S. press has let itself be scooped by Rupert Murdoch’s London Sunday Times on a dynamite story of criminal activities by corrupt U.S. officials promoting nuclear proliferation,” declares Daniel Ellsberg, the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers some 35 years ago. “But there is a worse journalistic sin than being scooped, and that is participating in a cover-up of information that demands urgent attention from the public, the U.S. Congress and the courts.”
So begins a column by Ellsberg at Brad Friedman’s “Brad Blog.” Edmonds is the former FBI staffer, who translated wiretaps for the bureau, and whistleblower. Ellsberg repeated the “cover-up” charge in a phone call to E&P today., raising the possibility that some in the media have been asked by the U.S. government to refrain from pursuing the story due to national security concerns.
