Word: halperins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ordered the FBI to stop them. As the bureau's just-appointed director, William D. Ruckelshaus, now admits, the FBI failed in that mission; it did, however, set up a number of wiretaps without any court authorization. One of them was on the home phone of Morton Halperin, then a consultant for the National Security Council, and on that tap, the FBI heard some conversations by Ellsberg. Fully a year ago. Judge Byrne had demanded an account of all Government eavesdropping on Ellsberg, but Ruckelshaus disclosed the tap on Halperin only last week-and added the incredible news that...
...remained the unresolved questions about the legality of the Government's charges-and of Ellsberg's actions in taking and releasing the documents. In the corridors, an ugly suspicion was voiced by defense counsel: perhaps the Administration had deliberately flunked its last assignment from Byrne, about the Halperin wiretap, because it was being increasingly embarrassed by the disclosures that Byrne was forcing. By failing to meet Byrne's demands, the Administration had given him good reason for dismissing the case and had thus forestalled any further investigation that he might order. It had thereby plugged the leaks...
...anticipated by years the Government's change of heart-and encouraged it at least indirectly. Through articles, speeches and personal contacts, they have helped alter the official view of a decade ago, which saw Chinese communism as ruthlessly totalitarian at home and implacably expansionist abroad. According to Morton Halperin at the Brookings Institution, the scholars who have consulted with the Government's China watchers have become nearly unanimous in depicting China as a relatively defensive, inward-looking, less-than-bellicose land. Says Halperin: "There was an enormous change from the time McNamara and Rusk were quoting Lin Piao...
...Halperin gives four reasons why this is so: "First, you can always tell yourself you can do more by staying. This is defensible. Often you can. Second is the perception that nobody will care. This is partly because nobody has ever done it and made a difference. Third, it seems a betrayal of your boss. Finally, it's not how a gentleman plays the game...
...disagree with the bureaucracy's shared images," says Halperin, "you must hide it, or no one will take you seriously on particular policy issues. If you say Viet Nam does not matter, you cannot have a credible opinion about strategy or tactics. Ball endorsed one of the proposals to begin the bombing since he thought that rejecting it entirely would make him appear so opposed to the whole effort to keep South Viet Nam free that no one would ever take him seriously...