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The different reasons why Ellsberg and Trump took classified material

GEORGE MONBIOT

The far-right warms to climate chaos

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Last Friday, a man who leaked classified national security documents to the press died at the age of 92 at his home in the San Francisco Bay Area. Last Tuesday, a man who took classified documents to his Miami home that was also a resort frequented by a wide array of characters, refused to surrender them, and unleashed a flock of lies about the whole business, was arraigned on 37 felony charges.

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