Review: The Post is good, but not brilliant

'Despite Spielberg's noble intentions, The Post never rises to the level of All The President's Men,' observes Aseem Chhabra. Before Edward Snowden and Julian Assange, there was Daniel Ellsberg, a former United States military analyst, who in 1971 leaked thousands of pages of a secret government report first to The New York Times and then to The Washington Post, and several other newspapers. The report that Ellsberg leaked -- better known as the Pentagon Papers -- essentially said that US ...