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That two such clashing conclusions from the same source could be reached about Ellsberg suggests the trouble with behavioral profiles. Some news commentators feel the studies were ordered as part of a White House "smear" campaign against Ellsberg. In fact, the first profile, which turned out to be reasonably favorable, was judged unsatisfactory by the White House, and the CIA was sent back to crank out another...
...office of Dr. Lewis Fielding, who had been Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist. The Government contends that the burglary was part of an attempt by the White House to gather psychiatric information on Ellsberg, who had released the Pentagon papers to the press, and to use that material to smear him. According to the prosecutor, Ehrlichman had approved the burglary and had told his subordinates in the plumbers group: "O.K., let me know if they find anything...
Both Chestnut and Joseph Johnson, an official of the Mills campaign, refused to testify under oath before the committee, invoking the Fifth Amendment against selfincrimination. Mills declared that the draft report was "distorted" and leaked "to smear me." Humphrey said the report on his campaign was "filled with innuendoes and inaccuracies" and pointed out that it had not yet been considered by the seven Senators who make up the committee. But they could scarcely dispute the staffs conclusion: "It is not the Republican Party which is in need of remedy but rather the process by which we nominate and elect...
Those who give out secrets are often serving their own interests. In the late stages of a political campaign, for example, one side will sometimes attempt to smear the opposition when there is no time to reply adequately. Newsmen have an obligation to consider such motives, check the material with the utmost care, and give the person under attack a decent chance to defend himself. Occasionally journalists fail to take these precautions, and the articles that result are unfair or incomplete...
Staring Witness. At 6:35 p.m., as the first trace of smoke began to curl up from the dwelling, a black woman staggered out, her face puffed and cracked by the tear gas and a smear of blood showing on the back of her white blouse...