ANNOUNCER: Bringing you the world for 20 years, this is CNN.</s>BOBBIE BATTISTA, CNN ANCHOR: The manifesto of a murderer. The "Washington Post" and the "New York Times" today bowed to demands of the Unabomber and published his manuscript. The move follows urging from the Justice Department, and it is raising eyebrows as well as questions of ethics.</s>CHARLES BIERBAUER, CNN SENIOR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT: The manifesto itself was a screed against technology and against politicians of both the left and the right. And he said his objective was not a political one, but an anarchic one, that he wanted to overthrow the system, to overthrow the technological and economic basis of current society. The Justice Department and the FBI had actually recommended that the newspapers publish the Unabomber's manifesto. They thought it might help their investigation. The newspapers' concern was whether this was giving him encouragement. But underlining this whole thing was the threat that the Unabomber had made to kill again if his manifesto was not published. And the two papers came to the conclusion that if they were going to save one life by publishing, that was far outweighing whatever the consequences might be that would help the Unabomber himself. The key lead was when David Kaczynski identified to officials that he was pretty sure that the Unabomber was his brother, Ted. And that led to him being arrested, and he now sits in jail and will for the rest of his life.
CNN 20: Unabomber's Manifesto Published, September 19, 1995