Revealing the Pentagon Papers in Congress — 5: From Capitol Hill to Beacon Hill

If the press wouldn’t continue publishing the Papers, I would. I sought a commercial publisher for the 4,100-page subcommittee record. Americans had to know the whole story about how government lies ultimately killed more than 58,000 Americans and three million Southeast Asians—just as we need today to expose all the lies about Iraq.

Gobin also attacked his fellow publishers who hadn’t shown similar guts. “In a time when most houses are selling out to larger industrial conglomerates, the corporation and not the publisher is controlling the book trade. We may consider ourselves very fortunate that our press takes a different attitude.”

[consortiumnews.com]

Mike Gravel is also a member of Consortium News VIPS (Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity) and a Board of Director.

A Robert Parry before a Robert Parry. For those new/ish to the group. Consortium News was the first Internet news sight founded by Robert Parry in 1995. Robert Parry left MSCM for the very reason you'll get the sense of in this article. As it became virtually impossible for him to get his work on the Iran-Contra issue into circulation and his investigation on Reagan and Bush Sr. To get a feel of his life as an investigative journalist see the Memorandum to him on the right of any page on the site or bellow.

[consortiumnews.com]