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Hunt's testimony, given before the grand jury investigating the Watergate break-in, was released Monday by U.S. District Court Judge Matt Byrne in Los Angeles at the trial of Daniel Ellsberg '52. Byrne publicized the transcripts after he learned Hunt had burglarized the offices of Ellsberg's psychiatrist and rifled the files to try to find information damaging to Ellsberg...
...term executive privilege applies primarily to personal conversations held with the President on matters which involve national security. What actually constitutes national security is debatable, and is presently being debated at the Ellsberg and Russo trial in Los Angeles...
...burglary as a "third-rate" operation. In comparison to the past jobs of the G. Gordon Liddy and E. Howard Hunt "vigilante team," the June 17 job was indeed third-rate. When Hunt and Liddy, under supervision of White House aide Egil Krogh, burglarized the psychiatric files of Daniel Ellsberg '52, no one caught the "vigilantes" inside the doctor's office. When Hunt and Liddy placed illegal wiretaps on the telephones of two New York Times reporters, no one surprised the two men with the electronic equipment in their hands...
Thus, the defense has no compulsion to win on the issues, to "vindicate" Ellsberg and Russo. Far from resenting the intrusion of Watergate, they welcome...
...boycott involves certain risks for Ellsberg and Russo. It is now possible for the prosecution to introduce testimony that the defense, through objections, might otherwise have prevented. By not objecting at this point, the defense might lose some rights of appeal...