Renowned for revealing the Pentagon Papers in 1971, Daniel Ellsberg received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Blueprint for Free Speech Whistleblowing Awards and called for a Presidential pardon for Daniel Hale, winner of the International Prize, and for jailed WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg has called on the White House to pardon drone program whistleblower Daniel Hale on the eve of President Biden’s Summit for Democracy, which kicks off on Thursday.

Meet the winners of the 2021 Blueprint for Free Speech Whistleblowing Prizes.