Leaker was seeing a psychiatrist

[G_j]

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/30/opinion/30krogh.html?_r=0

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Mr. Hunt urged us to carry out a “covert operation” to get a “mother lode” of information about Mr. Ells-berg’s mental state, to discredit him, by breaking into the office of his psychiatrist, Dr. Lewis Fielding. Mr. Liddy told us the F.B.I. had frequently carried out such covert operations — a euphemism for burglaries — in national security investigations, that he had even done some himself.

I listened intently. At no time did I or anyone else there question whether the operation was necessary, legal or moral. Convinced that we were responding legitimately to a national security crisis, we focused instead on the operational details: who would do what, when and where.

Mr. Young and I sent a memo to John Ehrlichman, assistant to the president, recommending that “a covert operation be undertaken to examine all of the medical files still held by Ellsberg’s psychiatrist.” Mr. Ehrlichman approved the plan, noting in longhand on the memo, “if done under your assurance that it is not traceable.”

On Sept. 3, 1971, burglars broke into Dr. Fielding’s Beverly Hills office to photograph the files, but found nothing related to Mr. Ellsberg.


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[deurbano]

1. Good one!

[grasswire]

2. not the only discredited whistleblower! nt

[GeorgeGist]

5. Reading is fundamental.

[G_j]

6. not sure

what you are saying.

[BrotherIvan]

3. Rec. for sanity

[Nuclear Unicorn]

8. .

[reformist2]

4. The only smears that work anymore are wild accusations of rape or murder.

[WillyT]

7. Everything Old Is New Again...

[G_j]

9. except

now there is little need of an actual physical burglary to get the 'dirt'.

[WillyT]

10. Great Point...

[G_j]

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