The New York Times Would Work with Government to Conceal Pentagon Papers if Released Today

In the case of Airman Jack Teixeira the New York Times helped the government track him down.

Fifty-one years ago, Neil Sheehan¹ and Hedrick Smith² received 7,000 pages of classified intelligence known as The Pentagon Papers³ from Daniel Ellsberg⁴. They revealed that the government had lied to the American people about the Vietnam War over the course of multiple administrations. The government attempted to prevent The New York Times from publishing …