2009 documentary...relevant and powerful today

"The Most Dangerous Man in America:Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers"( avail @ Netflix)
 We were blatantly lied to by 5 American Presidents about our involvement with Vietnam. Daniel Ellsberg who worked inside the Pentagon was tried as a traitor to U. S. security for giving top secret papers to the New York Times when he felt he was living and promoting a lie for the government that was needlessly costing million of lives.
  For many of us the question of his stealing the Top Secret McNamara history on the on going Vietnam War is still moot. Ellsberg was in on the planning of war strategies and heard in person the behind the scenes conclusions of top administrators and how they publicly stated the opposite in public statements. Going to Vietam himself and volunteering to go on a night patrol, he discovered that the master plan he was reading was bogus...there were no night patrols at the time. In fact the very attack on U.S. ships in the Gulf of Tonkin was proven to be false and began the first U. S Aggression on Nam. That we were guilty of genocide and torture as we pretend to  condemn other nations for is evident. To think that we are behaving in defense of our country is false- it is so often not on behalf of the country but in behalf of the ambition of politicians is more evident.
   I was so young then and a peace marcher. I am stunned by how little I knew and how dangerous the battle was between the government and the news media. I still find it hard to decide what was right with that issue. The government ( then Nixon administration) had good arguments for protecting high priority documents for the good of the country, but so did the media have rights. The influence of both powers on the general public is astounding.
  And just as today, once again, apathy of the public is still a shocking reality that we are continually deceived and what's more, when we find out, still do nothing, and let the big guys duke it out while we complain about the ineffectiveness of Congress and the bias of the media.
  I tend to think the original motives of the alleged Tea Party was honest vigil and protest about the dishonesty in government and that the media didn't help much attaching influential figures to the party who don't represent the original intent of the grass roots group.
   Such a powerfu documentary that brings my youth back to haunt me and remind me of how little I actually knew when it was all going on. I wish, even if you think you know, that you will watch this film