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Broken into daniel elseberg s psychiatrist s office under the pretext of national security to try to see what elseberg s medical records had to try to discredit him. it was, as john mitchell, the head of the re-election committee and former attorney general, thought that crime was worse than the bungled burglary that he approved at the watergate. there was a whole series of criminal abuse of power, including misuse of the irs, unprecedented crimes by a president of the united states seeking to undermine the rule of law. going back to his first days in office. not simply about intelligence gathering and his vast campaign of political espionage and sabotage. we ve got to take a quick break. i want to keep the panel because i want to get everybody s take on something else that happened today. carl researched christopher steele, the author of the trump dossier, could face a criminal investigation if two republican senators get their requests approved by the department of justice. what ....
Now the government first reaction to that disscloes yur was yes, to try to suppress every aspect of it, from forcing newspapers to censor the stories, to chrjing this man, daniel elseberg under the espionage act. the nixon administration failed. the supreme court ruled that the newspapers had the right to publish top-secret reports and the case against elseberg fell apart. what would dan elseberg think of this trial of bradley manning? he told us on the show on monday. he realized what he ought to do at 22, which took me, i was 40 when i did it. there are of course differences. the material i put out was top secret, rather than the secret and unclassified that he put out. as for those secret documents, manning has pled guilty to leaking, charges that carry 20 years in jail. but he s facing a much more aggressive prosecution than elseberg. prosecutors say manning should not be treated as a leaker. ....