"Seven Days In May"? No Way. Transparency!

When is it okay with a liberal-leaning scholar and former White House official that the hawks at the Pentagon were spying on and stealing documents from aides to a President who was trying to end a war and improve relations with Beijing and Moscow? When the scholar is Roger Morris and the erred-against President was Richard Nixon:

[P]olicy power grew so concentrated in a secretive White House that the Joint Chiefs of Staff began their own espionage program against [Henry] Kissinger, the so-called admirals’ spy ring of 1971.