Aaron Bushnell: “I will no longer be complicit in genocide.” Daniel Berrigan: “Jesus’ death, I think, in a very deep sense can be called a self-immolation.” https://husseini.substack.com/p/holocaust-immolation-sacrifice-and SAM HUSSEINI FEB 25, 2025 [Aaron Bushnell immolated himself in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C., a year ago today. A slightly edited version of this […]
All are invited to the 21st annual Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence Award ceremony to be given in memoriam to Aaron Bushnell, in recognition of his remarkable action in taking his own life to alert the world to the terrible crime of the US-Israeli genocide of Gaza, which has now spread to the West Bank and […]
In presenting its 2024 award, the Sam Adams Associates says it salutes Aaron Bushnell’s courage in performing a vital public service at the greatest cost — martyrdom — for truth-telling. (published in Consortiumnews on Sept 19, 2024) Vigil on Feb. 27, 2024, outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington for Aaron Bushnell, a U.S. airman who […]
By Joe LauriaSpecial to Consortium News I first met Daniel Ellsberg, who died on Friday at 92, inside a House committee hearing room on Capitol Hill in 2006. It was a hearing about whistleblowers. We were both sitting towards the back of the sparsely attended room. I don’t recall how we began speaking, but I had just […]
When the author blew the whistle on the C.I.A.’s torture program in 2007, Daniel Ellsberg called to congratulate him and say he had friends at his side. Years later, at a red-carpet event in Hollywood, the “most dangerous man in America” showed what he meant. Daniel Ellsberg in 2008. (Christopher Michel, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY […]
by Ray McGovern Posted on April 12, 2023 Those unaware of Dan Ellsberg’s 2002 Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers may think the leak of the Pentagon Papers was Dan’s first unauthorized disclosure. Not so. Arguably, his first such leak, in March 1968, was even more consequential. After the Viet Cong shocked most observers by mounting […]
Chelsea Manning/The New York Times Chelsea Manning. (photo: Lars Hagberg/AFP/Getty Images) (Original Opinion | Chelsea Manning: ‘I’m Still Bound to Secrecy’ – The New York Times (nytimes.com) It is not possible to work in intelligence and not imagine disclosing the many secrets you bear. I can’t pinpoint exactly when the idea first crossed my mind. […]
Minnesota Democrat writes letter to Biden on Daniel Hale’s behalf. Star Tribune,August 26, 2021 — 5:47pm WASHINGTON – Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar is publicly pushing President Joe Biden to pardon a former Air Force intelligence analyst after the man pleaded guilty earlier this year to leaking classified information to a journalist. In a letter […]
(Article written by Rachel Weiner and published in Washington Post on August 26, 2021) In July, Daniel Hale pleaded guilty in federal court in Alexandria to violating the Espionage Act and was sentenced in July to 45 months in prison for leaking classified documents to the Intercept. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) is asking President Biden to […]