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...case involves John Ehrlichman and three White House plumbers who are appealing their conviction for the break-in at the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist. During the trial, the judge refused to allow national security to be used as a defense; but in the appeal argued last week, Ehrlichman et al. renewed their claim that Ellsberg was regarded as a threat to national security, since the White House did not know whether he had stolen other secrets besides the Pentagon papers. The Justice Department, urging that the convictions be upheld, contends that the break-in was plainly illegal...
...DANIEL ELLSBERG, 44, former Rand Corp. consultant who made the Pentagon papers public: "All the commentators seem to have emphasized the tragedy, humiliation and sadness of all this. I think it was somewhat perverse to react only to that aspect of the events at the moment when the war was finally coming gloriously to a conclusion. It was the will of the American people, expressed to Congress, that ended this war now. That's the best possible celebration of the Bicentennial of the American Revolution that I can imagine...
...position on this issue is closer, finally, to Telford Taylor than to Daniel Ellsberg." Becker's version comes down strongly on the Ellsberg side, seeming to countenance his assertion that American policymakers were "guilty in the same way that German officials were guilty...
...been given portions of several secret documents, including Pentagon papers that had not been made public by Daniel Ellsberg, the Secretary of Defense's annual reports to the House and Senate Armed Services Committees on U.S. military strength from 1962 through 1972, a study that Halperin did for the Government on the Quemoy crisis of 1958, and transcripts of two off-the-record sessions in which Secretary of State Henry Kissinger briefed reporters on the Vladivostok arms agreement. Nothing of significance was revealed in the documents, but Halperin plans to appeal to the courts for portions that were deleted...
...oversimplifying itself, it dismisses those who perceived the intricacies of history, who refused to condone totalitarianism simply because they loathed our Viet Nam intervention. Historical events, like the Korean War, are soon lost in this cinematic shuffle. Attempts at temporal sequence are left to a sentimental Daniel Ellsberg and an unregenerate Walt Rostow...