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...Despite Nixon's past denials, the President ordered the 1971 burglary of a Los Angeles psychiatrist's office in search of information about Pentagon Papers Defendant Daniel Ellsberg-a burglary that contributed to dismissal of the case. Dean claims he was told this by Egil Krogh Jr., a member of the five-man White House "plumber" team assigned to plug news leaks...
...many observers of American Government, the practice of secrecy is as serious a threat to a free society as wiretapping. "Complacency about this problem," declares Vanderbilt University Professor Harry Howe Ransom, "can destroy the nation." In view of Daniel Ellsberg, who should know, people who have access to Government secrets tend to develop an "arrogance and contempt" for people who are not similarly plugged in. It is obvious that this criticism is not limited to the Nixon Administration; one has only to recall the way Lyndon Johnson used to chuckle over the FBI dossiers of friends, foes and the famous...
...distinction between illegal activities and certain covert security activities that may be acceptable under the Constitution-such as legal wiretapping. "The President cannot decide for himself what is in the interest of national security," Bickel says. "National security does not exist outside the rule of law." In the Ellsberg case, for instance, the Administration could have proposed legislation-cumbersome as the process might have been-that might have permitted it access to Ellsberg's psychiatrist's files. Instead, it called in the goons...
...that," says Bickel, "is intolerable." The next step, in the name of national security: the internment of Ellsberg, perhaps, and then of his relatives and his friends and his business associates. "If you start down that road," adds Bickel, "there...
...only top official who has expressed willingness to stand up and accuse other insiders -including the President. In addition, he claims credit for having volunteered early cooperation with prosecutors and causing the disclosure of such key incidents as the raid on the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist and the destruction of documents by FBI Chief L. Patrick Gray...