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Liddy and Hunt later helped carry out those bugging plans at the Watergate in at least one wiretapping break-in before they were arrested after the second foray in June. Investigators are trying to determine whether the two men were still working under the same officials as in their Ellsberg-psychiatrist burglary. If so, Young, Krogh and Ehrlichman also might have known about the Watergate plans. Krogh said last week that he intends to tell whatever he knows to the grand jury...
...White House payroll and directed by an assistant to Ehrlichman had broken into a psychiatrist's office with CIA equipment to obtain the psychiatric records of Daniel Ellsberg in order to find out about his "moral and emotional problems." The information, if not the method, had been specifically ordered up by the President. When Ehrlichman found out about the breakin, he claims he merely told the burglars: "Don't do it again." His legal duty was to report the crime...
...Even more unbelievable, Ehrlichman only five weeks ago offered the job of FBI director to the judge presiding over the Ellsberg case, with the President himself making a brief appearance during the meeting...
...episode of the Ellsberg psychiatrist raised particularly frightening questions. What kind of ethical climate does the President of the U.S. create when he orders his highest aides to pry into the morals and the state of mind of a man accused of stealing Government documents? Should the Government emulate the tactics of the accused? If the White House condoned that kind of treatment of a defendant, why would any Nixon aides expect him to object if they stooped to similar tactics against the men who more directly challenged Nixon's power, such...
...seven men arrested in the Watergate headquarters of the Democratic National Committee last June to keep them from implicating higher officials. He also was reported to have authorized a covert "dirty-tricks" drive against Democratic presidential candidates. As for Ehrlichman, in addition to his actions in the Ellsberg case, he had condoned the destruction of some files taken from the office of one of the Watergate wiretappers...