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Former Pentagon employee Daniel Ellsberg poses for photographs in central London, November 1, 2004.
  • Daniel Ellsberg, the whistleblower behind the Pentagon Papers, died at 92, his family said Friday.
  • Ellsberg is remembered as an anti-war hero who demanded consequences for abuses of power.
  • He faced trials in Boston and Los Angeles on federal charges for espionage and theft.

NEW YORK (AP) — Daniel Ellsberg, the history-making whistleblower who by leaking the Pentagon Papers revealed longtime government doubts and deceit about the Vietnam War and inspired acts of retaliation by President Richard Nixon that helped lead to his resignation, has died. He was 92.