{"id":8942,"date":"2011-01-15T12:26:07","date_gmt":"2011-01-15T20:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=8942"},"modified":"2011-01-15T12:26:07","modified_gmt":"2011-01-15T20:26:07","slug":"the-most-dangerous-documentary-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/15\/the-most-dangerous-documentary-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Dangerous Documentary in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US State Department has released their list of films for the 2011 &#8220;American Documentary Showcase,&#8221; a program that brings their approved documentaries to audiences around the world to &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/exchanges.state.gov\/cultural\/american-film-program\/docshowcase.html\">offer a view of American society and culture<\/a>.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Amongst the <a href=\"http:\/\/exchanges.state.gov\/cultural\/american-film-program\/docshowcase.html\">list of selected titles<\/a>, surprisingly, was &#8220;The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a fine choice, of course, and a splendid documentary, but with the State Department railing against WikiLeaks it seems odd for them to be celebrating a laudatory documentary on the last major whistleblower officials were trying to spin as a grave threat to national security. <\/p>\n<p>Then again maybe it&#8217;s just a matter of time healing all wounds &#8211; maybe the State Department will be celebrating a WikiLeaks documentary in another 40 years. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US State Department has released their list of films for the 2011 &#8220;American Documentary Showcase,&#8221; a program that brings their approved documentaries to audiences around the world to &#8220;offer a view of American society and culture.&#8221; Amongst the list of selected titles, surprisingly, was &#8220;The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-8942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8943,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8942\/revisions\/8943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8942"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}