>>... I was looking at a cruel and stupid lizard. His reply was that maybe his staff had, and maybe they hadn't, but what about the leak of the Pentagon Papers? Thus, a secret theft of presidential documents was equated with the public disclosure of needful information.<<
The Pentagon Papers were needful information?
The Pentagon Papers were illegaly leaked by the Browne, halberstam, Sheehan axis of disinformation. The PP's were heavily edited, distorted, and butchered with the most left-wing tactics of lying.
Go find "Our Vietnam Nightmare" on the internet. it's a great read by a Chicage tribune Journalist that debunks a lot of crap by BSH way back when during the heady days of Vietnam.