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...attempt to "defame" Pentagon Papers Defendant Daniel Ellsberg with information obtained by a burglary of the office of his psychiatrist...
...Nixon's creation of a secret White House squad of investigators, called the "plumbers," the brief argued that this too was a proper effort to protect national security and that "the President never explicitly or implicitly authorized anyone associated with this unit to commit illegal acts," including the Ellsberg burglary. Surprisingly, St. Clair claimed that Nixon deserves credit for informing the judge in the Ellsberg trial of this burglary since "there was no legal obligation to report the break-in." In fact, the judge had been seeking information about the Government's investigatory tactics against Ellsberg for weeks and dismissed...
Mardian's answer, which implies that the President indeed saw the wiretap transcripts, could have an important bearing on the impeachment case. Reason: the evidence suggests, though it does not prove, a crucial connection between the wiretap records and the then ongoing trial of Daniel Ellsberg. The evidence shows that 15 conversations between Ellsberg and Halperin were included in the two boxes of wiretap data on Ellsberg. When William Matthew Byrne Jr., the judge in Ellsberg's trial, learned of the wiretaps and was advised of the break-in at the office of Dr. Lewis Fielding, Ellsberg's psychiatrist...
After The Boston Globe ran the text of the CIA's famous profile of Daniel Ellsberg last week, it printed a public apology to Ellsberg for publishing with little background material the vicious half-truths that the government collected in order to shore up its case at the Pentagon Papers trial. Boudin, Countryman and Nesson all think that it would have been appropriate for The Times to run the same sort of public apology when it ran the Boudin memorandum. Nesson says that it's still not too late for The Times to follow The Globe's example and Boudin...
...assumptions it makes about its readers or perhaps out of sloppiness--didn't bother to recognize the possibility that people might not see the memorandum for the hack job it is. It never placed the profile in the context of a contrived and systematic attempt to discredit the Ellsberg defense and only in a news story three pages away did it quote anyone as questioning the profile's accuracy. The Times presumed that everyone has realized just how demented Richard Nixon and his government are, and that's not a safe assumption for anyone, let alone a newspaper, to make...