Neil Sheehan
Neil Sheehan
Cornelius Mahoney "Neil" Sheehanis an American journalist. As a reporter for The New York Times in 1971, Sheehan obtained the classified Pentagon Papers from Daniel Ellsberg. His series of articles revealed a secret United States Department of Defense history of the Vietnam War and led to a US Supreme Court case, New York Times Co. v. United States, when the United States government attempted to halt publication...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth27 October 1936
CountryUnited States of America
We thought that whatever we wanted to do was right and good, simply because we were Americans, and we would succeed at it because we were Americans.
These men were wrongfully rejected, the veterans. The fighting man should never have been blamed for Vietnam.
The commission has said time and time again that issues like emergency planning, spent fuel storage and security should be dealt with in the here and now and not in connection with a license renewal.
Among other things, we will be providing full details of how we intend to approach our Special Inspection of the spent fuel pool leakage and inviting the state to observe those efforts, ... Had we seen any evidence that worker or public health and safety was in any way endangered, we would have responded accordingly.