European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 16, 1980, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes William Safire tuesday september 10, 1980 we he Tow it he pollen a pm oj4 us Justice official s rape of Sanctity of sources when an administration s paranoia about leaks reaches the Point thai in. Encourages High officials to sneak a look Al a newspaper s loll ice phone culls Walch Oul. On june 3 of this year Philip Heymann chief of the criminal division of the depart mini of Justice authored secret subpoenas to obtain the toll Telephone records of the Allan a Bureau of the new York times from october 1978 through March 1979, and of the Home Telephone of ils Bureau chief Howell Raines for part of that period. Government regulations prohibit secret subpoenas of news Media records warning officials thai the press has la right to object in court to fishing expeditions for sources. Since watergate s revelations of secret wiretapping of newsmen Justice officials have been leery of using inc Telephone As an instrument of snooping on the press. Bui Philip the plumber Heymann probably bridging Al press criticism of his  techniques in the a scam investigations found a loophole. Thai record of loll Calls we receive with our phone Bill belongs to the phone company and not to us inc Refore reasoned the Man who helped prosecute John Ehrlichman thai revealing record of our activities May be examined by such a High political appointee As himself. Reaching into a newsman s Home Lele phone records was nol enough for Phil inc plumber. He kind of liked inc Opportunity u Sec who was getting called by inc reporter and he did not want his snooping denied by Public protest. Therefore he asked for secrecy ant inc ice phone company Uii fully turned Over its lists of Calls to Jimmy Carter s Justice depart men. Until just the other Day the newsmen did nol know their privacy had been invaded or that their sources had been exposed. Thai s whal made hey Roann s Man Euver so Clever. For fishing purposes in was As eff Clive As a wiretap with less paperwork. The secret subpoena of toll Calls shows what source inc reporter called and makes it pos sible for government to Zero in on whistle blowers. As the Oul raucous intrusion came to Light Phil the plumber who was Archibald Cox Harvard protege and is a Dar Ling of the Charlt. River gang was forced to admin his disdain of the first and fourth amendments had nol been cleared by the a Lorney general whose approval is required by departmental rules on Simitar mailers. Ben Civ Lelii who needs every me Dia Friend he can gel As pressure for his resignation grows promptly announced that he was for plugging the loophole. Thanks a lot Ben it s comforting to know the at Torney Genera knew As Little about abuses of Power in inc Justice depart Mcnol As the Rusl of us. Bui where is the fury of the press and where is the outrage of the civil liberties establishment Al this rape of the Sanctity of sources exc Cpl for a vigorous protest from the times the Story has rated a to hum from those who used to be so horrified at ice phone snoops. This source revealing stunt pioneered in this decade by Heymann has since been used by defense counsel in the acc Cal a scam Case against rep. Michael Myers. Lawyers for the defendant asked for the toll records of Wor to in new York the Sla lion limited the subpoena to Calls to the Justice department and then incredibly acquiesced. The criminal division s excuse for the examination of sources was probably a Crimi Nal trial bul the Man Euver made available to Heymann every toll Call made by report ers Howell Raines and Wendell Rawls checking political stories about Jimmy car the of Edom apr a in to column ,1 u d cd loot on in Mot Prno Tittl of it minor and a in now a lob Cotta Rcd of  it Al i of the Slort find sir Lett or it unum St of . Tar Billy Carter. Charles Kirbo and Bert Lance from the Georgia capital. That list now belongs to the Man whose political be Gal ethical Standard was revealed when he was asked about attorney general Civiletti s lid about informal Brief Exchange with the president. Said Loyal Democrat Heymann "1 Don t have any problem with  the nation has a problem with its Justice department. Ordinarily the leak plugging moral and procedural lapse would be investigated by the office of professional responsibility but that Section is headed by re old Mississipp can Michael Shah can he handled the Whitewash of civil Clit and co. In he Marston affair when sworn testimony was last in conflict at Justice and is expected to Whitewash him again on he Billy Carter Case. All reporters and columnists have a prob Lem too with the chilling effect on sources. Let s Sec i m looking for a report of a phone Call Brzezinski made in late novem Ber after inc first Libya while House meet ing and also for responses to an aug. 7 Brzezinski memo suggesting How members of the National Security Council can mis Lead reporters asking about inc use Clad Inadequacy of our plutonium production. Sources who want to pass those along arc urged to use the mails or the pay Booth in the Candy store. Stay away from toll Calls on your own phone As j will in this Stealthy administration Phil the plumber has the Power and the inclination to examine our records. C new Vork tire i George will columnist is honoured by red attack the soviet literary Gazelle has honoured me with an attack thai is so experts ill me remarkably coarse even considering the source. To ils calumny i reply Slicks and Cloncs May break my Bones bul words will never hurl me although when a communist says i once was a run of the Mill professor he goes beyond whal is permissible even in the Dalh so Ruggly with capitalism. The attack is world Noling not just be cause it contributes to inc Public Slock of harmless pleasure or because in reminds us of what we cannot be reminded of Loo often the vulgarity of inc soviet mind. In also dramatizes the shocking decline in the Cali Ber of communist inc Clive. The article which nominates me for a place in the Sovil gallery of slanderers says Hal inc military Industrial Complex is nol Only the hand that feeds me it is taks a Hano. La a in Banger in r4bwise a to i Simov a Ujj. A -v.7 to the hand Hal gives him food and drink strokes him scratches him behind inc cars and lakes care of him in every Way. U is necessary to lick that  it goes on like that but you get the picture. What comes from his pen depends on who gives him the orders and it is evident from the output who the promoters Are. U is a  Bingo when a communist deep thinker is really ready to get Down and Boogie out conies the key concept dialectics. Don t ask me or him what it Means but Bear with me and him. He says i gave the game away when last december just before the full scale soviet invasion of Afghanistan i said correctly that some soviet troops already were engaged in Afghanistan. This my critic says was a lie and a Blunder because it betrayed my fear Hal soviet troops would enter Afghanistan to forestall the Cia s overthrow of the afghan government which my critic says i knew was planned for dec. 29." to frustrate thai overthrow my critic says the soviet Union extended fraternal socialist assistance o the afghan government. And murdered the head of it. Perhaps that is applied dialectics my slip which revealed my guilty knowl Edge proves that i am close to deed a Pawn of the Washington faction that is making every Effort to foment  my critic thinks thai faction includes almost everyone and meets weekly in Katharine Graham s living room. The huge editorial commercial enter prise known As the Washington Post com Pany " belongs to mrs. Boss who com mands will s reckless and evil thoughts about the  furthermore i am dialectically speaking her Man in inc Cia and the Cia s Man in Newsweek. Actually i sup Cal that Newsweek and my newspapers regard me inc Way Ronald Reagan s staff Are coming to regard him a 1 with the trepidation aroused by random Ness. Still 1 am chagrined if not surprised that my soviet critic reduces me to the stat us of an  my critic does not use the term he seems innocent of any understanding even of marxism but it is a favorite of marxists denoting some thing that is a Mere reflection of vast in personal forces. That s the Way my critic regards me pretty much the Way Marx regarded Louis Napoleon an appraisal almost As wounding As run of the Mill  to the charge that i am a Mere reflection of social forces i respond so s you re old Man in fact so is everybody according to Marx. A whole academic Industry exists trying to read Marx otherwise but he said that everyone is a Mere Cork on the currents of history. Frankly i am saddened to note the de Cline of marxist invective. Marx himself who probably considered civility a Bourgeois affectation was always unloading on someone As a sentimental Petty Bourgeous social Fantast and stuff like that. That s a denunciation with a doctoral de Gree full of sociological Gravity and the Tang of High learning. The literary Gazette can t Rise above saying that i m a team with " a completely soiled soul do marxists now believe in souls and a pathologically evil mind and one who know no limit to his inhuman  my critic who probably needs the Job u no doubt unwilling to face the fact thai. Personal abuse makes no sense in the my is scheme of things in which nothing in personal. He knows perfectly Well that i j although repulsive am not to  am a plaything of and destined for tie-1 Ashcan of history. I am a Mere  a by product of this passing stage of the a Zelop mint of the meat of production. Safsel by mom but that s dialectics