fielding, lewis fielding, daniel ellsberg's psychologist. you can listen to him talk about that operation. >> we went to check out the house. >> then you might ask yourself, that, by the way, that break-in was illegal. again, if our country you can get a subpoena to get information, could have gone to the fbi. the fbi handles this all the time. the white house chose to use a group of its own and broke in illegally into dr. fielding's office. that was because dr. fielding had not wished to share information about his client. he decided -- he cited doctor/client privilege. the white house breaks in. the question is what did the president know of this? we don't know what he knew in advance but we do know from the tapes he was informed that a domestic covert action had occurred in los angeles. here we go. this is five days after. >> so tomorrow we'll review all this tough. we tried to view -- we had one little operation that aborted out in los angeles, which i think is better that you don't know about. >> agree. >> but we have some dirty tricks

it's still there they want to prosecute people underneath it but that's what they tried with daniel ellsberg with the pentagon papers and what they're going to try with bradley manning and you know eventually they're probably going to get a son sure they're going to send him over here and try to do that with wiki leaks and really really just last year one more thing because you know there's leaks in every administration as you had mentioned earlier before why is it now i mean we're seeing this unprecedented crackdown on whistleblowers why is it now that congress is so worried about these leaks well look at what the u.s. is doing right now this administration let's go back to a less three years the war in iraq there's a war in afghanistan there's screws up domestically everywhere u.s. tries to tiptoe around the entire arab spring but have military bases everywhere in the world they're doing more things right now with more money and more resources than they ever have in the past so it makes sense that they are doing more things with those resources and money if they can find a way to manage it

political and media culture i mean if you go back and look at contemporaneous debates about the daniel ellsberg case you'll find that it received norma's amounts of attention from the media from citizens from the political class i mean not just the pentagon papers themselves but the treatment of the prosecution of ellsberg was a very widely and hotly debated issue by contrast if you look at what is being said and done about bradley manning the establishment media itself is almost completely ignored these proceedings i mean you have to basically go to the guardian or to places outside of the american establishment media such as this show or our blogs to find anything about it and i think that it's just very indicative of this of this general attitude that when the military of the u.s. government asserts a claim that something is necessary and justifiable in the name of national security that are leading this stablish in institutions not including but especially our established media simply acquiesce to it silently i don't care i mean the u.s. government succeeded in preventing guantanamo detaine

in conduct which he knew or should have known would have interfered with the legal defense of daniel ellsberg. he was not acting in a lawyer role but because of that conduct, he lost his law license and he tried to voluntarily resign his license to the new york bar, and they really wanted to write the order disbarring him. so they declined his voluntary resignation and proceeded with disbarment proceedings. >> and, jill, if i could have one point here. the whole reason we're here today is because when john testified in front of the senate, he had created a document in which he was asked who was involved, prebreak-in, most break-in. he wrote it out for his lawyer and then he put stars or asterisks next to the names of many people. when he was shown that during his testimony, he said, you know, what do the stars mean? he said, well, it means that they were all lawyers. and, you know, a full two-thirds of the people involved here were lawyers. gordon liddy was a lawyer. chuck colson was a lawyer. president nixon obviously was a lawyer. but, you know, all of these people were lawyers, and yet non

activists, everyone from daniel ellsberg and others who camped out, and thereererotests felt they, younodnntke wh r tnyha rthid one of the things that i wanted to stress in the book was this idea of secrecy and silencing, and how secrecynd silencing at the leofamil ri coun coort, te' price for that, and so that's one of the things i wanted to bring out. it happened in so many ways. when you have that silencing and secretinin the counit i via un e'cttsos, residents, and often people at odds even the workers who were contaminated and became ill from the work at rocky flats, and thfoea aer o rked out . ny workers were proud of, but there's friction amongst the works, those who were sick, those who didn't, what story do we tell about rocky flats? it's been interestingore inouhe cry lkabthok a inatop h fukushima changed the conversation. we're talking about these things in aery different way now, and i think for whatever reason people are ready toalk about rocky flatinay th inas s a itat he nuclear weapons systems in the country. it was one of 13 facilities. rocky flats was the factory. we produced

daniel ellsberg, thomas jefferson thomas payne, george washington benjamin franklin, and the list goes did it because he wants you to know what our government is up to. we found out that our government through that disastrous war in iraq wound up killing 15,000 extra civilians in iraq. did your press tell you that? they're lap dogs. that's why they hate bradley manning and julian assange. they'll tell you what the press won't tell you. the government is screwing you. he showed you tape of murders

fielding to steal information related to daniel ellsbe ellsberg's mental health care and that they did thereby injury, oppress, threaten, intimidate dr. fielding in the free exercise and enjoyment of the right and privilege secured to him by the fourth amendment of the constitution. what i found more interesting though is when he explained his reasoning about why he decided to please guiplead guilty to th crimes and that reasoning is contained in his disbarment order, and he basically said i was on a trip with my family, and i had a chance to sort of assess my situation, and here i was, a defendant in a criminal proceeding but presently free, able to attend the church of my choice and be entitled to all of these due process rights, and it felt hypocritical. i felt like if he continued to defend my conduct, how could i do that when these are the same rights that i had invaded that i was now taking advantage of. so sort of the way i started think being it is if we as lawyers sort of constantly thought about how is our conduct, how are our actions impacting others, one, maybe it would det