the political fire storm started with a former military analyst who became disillusioned with the conflict in vietnam. >> i began xeroxing the mcnamara study in the fall of 1969. at the end of the day, working i would put several volumes into my briefcase to take with me. walking past the security guards, i could feel my heart beating. i couldn't help thinking about the dozen of other secrecy agreements i signed over the course of my career in government. the task seemed endless. i often worked through the night. early in the morning, i returned the papers to my safe and headed home. >> the first issue they ran had a paragraph from assistant secretary of defense to secretary mcnamara. i can almost tell it by memory. we're in vietnam, 10% to help