Pentagon Paper's Lawyer
Daniel Sheehan: Political climate more dangerous than ever for whistleblowers
Daniel Sheehan, JD is a graduate of Harvard Law School, and a Professor
of World Politics at the University of California. Mr. Sheehan has a
long and distinguished history in public service. He co-founded of the
Christic Institute which was directly responsible for investigating the
unconstitutional conduct of George Bush, along with senior and numerous
members of his administration in the Iran/Contra scandal during the
1980s.
In 1994 Dan defended Dr. John Mack before a review panel
of the Harvard Medical School in the wake of Mack's book Abduction:
Human Encounters With Aliens. This was not his first, nor his last,
encounter with the important issue of extraterrestrial-related
phenomena. In 1977, while general counsel to the United States Jesuit
Office of Social Ministry in Washington, DC., he served as a special
consultant to the United States Library of Congress Congressional
Research Office Project on Extraterrestrial Intelligence ordered by
President Jimmy Carter. In this capacity, he was given access not only
to the classified portions of the United States Air Force's infamous
"Project Blue Book" files but to the confidential report prepared for
the Science & Technology Committee of the United States Congress by
the Library of Congress Congressional Research Office pursuant to this
Presidential assignment. What he saw changed his life.
"During
my thirty years in the field of public interest law and public policy, I
have supervised professional investigations into the illegal smuggling
of weapons-grade plutonium, the illegal supply of arms to terrorist
organizations by covert operations and government agents, and into
ultra-"black" weapons programs unknown even to the most trusted
congressional officials. I have come to believe that keeping weapons
out of interplanetary space is the most important contribution we can
make to the future of this planet. The time to begin this task is now."
