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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...
...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 agrees, noting that "there is nobody who fits the following criterion: a full-time employee of the U.S. Government who worked on Viet Nam and who resigned and publicly stated that he was doing so because he disagreed with our policy there. There isn't even anyone who fits most...
...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...