Hume reported a story for Anderson 's column " Washington Merry-Go-Round " that after ITT Corporation had contributed $ 400,000 to the 1972 Republican National Convention , President Richard Nixon 's Department of Justice settled the antitrust case against ITT . Anderson published a series of classified documents indicating the Nixon administration , contrary to its public pronouncements , had favored Pakistan during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 . After the revelations , Anderson and his staff , including Hume and his family , were briefly surveilled by the Central Intelligence Agency in 1972 . The agents observed his family going about its daily business . The documents were revealed during President Gerald Ford 's administration by congressional hearings and as a result of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit and the so-called ' Family Jewels ' revelations
1972 Republican National Convention
1972 Republican National Convention
Brit Hume