I appreciate many of your points but this: > No one has the actual Pentagon Papers outside of very specific news agencies is patently false, they're available

I appreciate many of your points but this: > No one has the actual Pentagon Papers outside of very specific news agencies is patently false, they're available in full from the National Archives: https://www.archives.gov/research/pentagon-papers https://www.archives.gov/research/pentagon-papers There are very good arguments made elsewhere in this thread about releasing in full vs. releasing to a group that has the ability and willingness to appropriately vet documents before release. Certainly Wikileaks' blanket release caused a large amount of unnecessary controversy that could have been strategically avoided, and would have served as less distraction from the issues presented in them.