AMEN, a closed govt is a tyrannical govt. We don’t need to know everything, but we absolutely need to know if we are being lied to. We were lied to about the Vietnam war, we are lied to about a lot of things. Things that our enemies know, but “We The People” do not. THAT is wrong.
You are correct. We need to have more information open to us. The problem arises when we have genuine enemies of the state like Ellsberg deciding what information gets leaked.
The real criminality belongs to an unresponsive congress. It is our elected officials responsibility to ferret out what info is necessary to keep private for our safety and what is being withheld for BS reasons. At least I can vote out the rat bastard rep that screws the country. What could we ever do to Ellsberg but throw a rotten egg at him.