Daniel Ellsberg

CBC The Current: Psychiatric Records

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Sean Bruyea
Sean Bruyea

CBC Radio, The Current – October 8, 2010

According to Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart, the Veterans Affairs Department shared the psychiatric records of Canadian veteran Sean Bruyea with people who had no legitimate need to see them. Bruyea says his psychiatric records were put into briefing notes sent to high-ranking bureaucrats and government ministers.

We started this segment with a clip from Jean-Pierre Blackburn, Canada's Minister of Veterans Affairs. And before that, Prime Minister Stephen Harper. The report they're talking about, of course, is from Canada's Privacy Commissioner, Jennifer Stoddart. Yesterday she ruled that officials in the Veterans Affairs department broke the law by sharing the sensitive medical records of one of this country's veterans.

Film tells story of America's famous whistleblower

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By LINDA DEUTSCH (AP) – Sep 26, 2009

LOS ANGELES — Four decades after he stunned the nation by leaking the top-secret Pentagon Papers study of the Vietnam War, Daniel Ellsberg walks the halls of the past in his dreams.

In his sleep, he imagines that he still works as a researcher at the Rand Corp., advising Pentagon officials on policy, handling classified documents, studying the science of war.

The Most Dangerous Man In America

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In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg shook America to its foundations when he smuggled a top-secret Pentagon study to the New York Times that showed how five Presidents consistently lied to the American people about the Vietnam War that was killing millions and tearing America apart.
A documentary using original footage from the period.

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