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...Boudin also dominates because he has built a reputation as one of the best appeals lawyers in the country. And he has recently been doing trial work to help fight the prosecutions of Dr. Benjamin Spock and Philip Berrigan. In the Ellsberg-Russo case, he is thus waging what to him is the third battle of Indochina...
...Court ruling three years ago which declared that individuals subjected to illegal eavesdrops have a right to transcripts of what has been overheard if they are to be prosecuted. Warrantless taps are known to have been used, for example, in investigations of the Chicago Seven and in the recent Berrigan case. Wherever violations are found, the Justice Department will have to either disclose the details of the eavesdropping or drop prosecution. Wouldn't it be only proper to inform anyone who has been illegally overheard? "Hell, no," said Kleindienst. "Our duty is to prosecute persons who commit crimes...
...Daniel Berrigan (Banfam) Rose: A Biography of Rose Fitzgerald
Both as film and theater, the work's documentary pretensions cut against its major points. Beyond their political ideology, the Berrigans are part of the radical movement in the Catholic Church which is intent on establishing communal religious celebrations at the same time that they forward social change. None of the exhilarating sense of release from Rome and of their free-wheeling new identity, which are part of the experience of the movement, is felt from the Berrigan work. What should be a spiritual bacchanalia comes off more like a wake. It's no wonder that the film closed early...
...what impressed Peck most about the Berrigans were their patriotism--their roots in the Midwest American heartland--and their discipline. Peck knew about neither Phil Berrigan's peace movement past, his hardheaded political analyses and "Just War" philosophy (no pacifist he), nor Dan's more cosmopolitan and poetic development. Sufficient for Peck were the facts that the Catonsville people spoke from their firsthand experiences in Latin American hills and Paris slums; that they then tried to change the government through normal channels; and that their action was non-violent, based on moral guidelines and designed to awaken religious resonances...