Title: John Kiriakou on Daniel Ellsberg #shorts
Show: CODEPINK
Date: 2023-05-05
URL: https://youtu.be/RgZoLf-Dwpg
Duration: 1:00

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[00:00] danielsburg was a hero in our family and I remember my father when I was only six years old explaining to me that this man this one man had decided to tell the American people the truth when everybody else was lying about the truth now my mom came from a very large family um I have 27 first cousins on my mom's side and many of them seven of them of the 27 uh fought in Vietnam and thought that they were fighting in Vietnam for the right reasons and believed what they

[00:31] were being told that we were the good guys we were on the side of righteousness we were there to protect the American people and to protect the American way of life and we were winning and all of that was a lie and we didn't even know it was a lie until Dan Ellsberg told us so this was revelatory and my parents made sure that we understood even at those young ages at Daniel Ellsberg was a bona fide American Hero
