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Daniel Ellsberg gave the New York Times the papers exposing what really was going on in the war and they started printing them.
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The Government got a court order preventing the Times from printing more documents because they said it threatened national security
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Daniel Ellsberg released the papers to the Washington Post and they started printing them. The Government was refused when trying to stop the printing
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The court ruled that the prior restraint was unconstitutional. They said the press should be free and unrestrained.
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