Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg said Monday on MSNBC’s The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell that the war in Afghanistan is virtually a replay of the war in Vietnam.

Ellsberg is credited with leaking the so-called Pentagon Papers to the New York Times in 1969, which revealed that the government had lied about the progress of the Vietnam war, among other things.

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Reiterating views expressed on CNN, he said all the crimes President Nixon had committed against him were now legal thanks to the PATRIOT Act.

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