Daniel Ellsberg Controversy

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My critical analysis post this week will center around the Time Magazine article “Ellsberg: The battle over the right to know”. This article was all about the Daniel Ellsberg controversy. Daniel Ellsberg was a researcher at the Rand Corporation who leaked the contents of a highly-sensitive Pentagon study to several major newspapers around the country. The study showed the U.S Government’s decision-making process in regards to the Vietnam War. Ellsberg was praised as a hero by some, who argued that his disclosures were an important part of understanding the mistakes policymakers made during the war and that the citizens had the right to know what led to such a disastrous endeavor in the first place. Others, on the other hand, felt what Ellsberg