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    Born in Chicago on April 7, 1931, Daniel Ellsberg helped secure open resistance to the Vietnam War in 1971 by releasing covert reports known as the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times and several other national newspapers. The documents contained evidence proving that the U.S. had deceived the public regarding their involvement in Vietnam. On June 1967, officials in the U.S. military headquarters were ordered to collect a history of U.S. strategy toward Vietnam by Robert McNamara, the secretary

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    His ideas of civil disobedience and nonviolent protests can be seen throughout protests and social/political movements all over the world. The March on the Pentagon, for example, is one of these protests. It was the first national protest against the Vietnam war, where demonstrators gathered together as a group and marched toward the Pentagon in hopes of ending the war in Vietnam. Individuals of all ages retaliated against the government’s military system, despite considering the consequences it

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    Amendment. First, the District Court for the Southern District of New York judged the Times case and decided the government had not “show[ed] justification for the enforcement of such a [prior] restraint,” for it simply deemed the publication of the Pentagon Papers detrimental to the nation. Likewise, the District Court for the D.C. and the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, the courts that judged the Washington Post case, came to the same verdict (New York Times Co. v. United States). The Case:

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    The reorganization also transferred the majority of the responsibility for IT operations from ITPCom to CyCom. Numerous individuals performing the tasks, also moved to CyCom. The five stakeholder organizations became known as the “iron pentagon”. In June 2013, BGen ITPCom officially reported to the Chief of the MilDep that the transition to the insourcing model was completed on schedule and further announced an overarching IT plan for the MilDep was being developed to guide the MilDep’s

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    Numerous reasons and possibilities circulate through out the world as to if the United States government had ties to the happenings on September 11th, 2001. Evidence to dispute 9/11 being an inside job quickly began to go viral, especially on the Internet. False flag terrorism became a widely debated topic to go along with the conspiracies. Theorists believe that bombs demolished the World Trade Center Buildings, the phone calls from the planes were a hoax, or George W. Bush who was the current president

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    On September 11, 2001 a terrorist group hijacked four planes that were flying above the United States. Two of them were flown into the twin towers of the world center in New York, Another was crashed into the Pentagon the top military building between Washington D.C and Virginia and the last plane crashed into a field, 80 miles from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Twin Towers in New York were severely hit it, injured and killed 403 officers and firefighters,it was a very sad day. All the people that

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    York City is one of the greatest culture center of all of the United States of America. In September 9th 2001, we were attack by a couple of terrorist. They hijacked four commercial airline planes and attack a couple of important places like the pentagon and the world trade centers. They committed this horrible act because they hate American capitalism, American culture, and the American Military. The world trade center was a symbol of capitalism that we have as a nation. The world trade center

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    The Washington Headquarters Services in Arlington, Virginia is an important organization which renders administrative guidance for numerous Department of Defense elements, along with numerous external organizations away from the Department of Defense domain. In addition, Washington Headquarters Services renders combined administrative and functional guidance to numerous organizations, Department of Defense Field Activities, the main headquarters, and numerous military organizations, the White House

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    One example of non violence is The March on The Pentagon. The March on The Pentagon occured on October 21st, 1967. The March on The Pentagon was when 50,000 surrounded the Pentagon and protested the U.S military action in Vietnam, (Birth of Flower Power 1). This is a strong example of non-violence because the protesters surrounded the pentagon not with weapons but with flowers, these people faced guns pointed out and held flowers to peacefully

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    The Pentagon’s desire to move to cloud computing, overhauling its IT data systems has caused quiet a controversy and quite possible a national security disaster. The Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) is considered to be a 10-year, $10 billion contract that would award one computing service the responsibility in modernizing the Defense Department’s information technology system, as well as handling all sensitive material, nuclear weapon design information, and classified NATO data.

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