Posted on 03/31/2015 4:09:37 PM PDT by raptor22
Scandal: RNC Chairman Reince Priebus reminds us of the similarity between the 18-1/2-minute gap that doomed a presidency and an email server wiped clean by a lawyer who served on a Watergate committee staff.
Hillary Clinton should know better, know that the cover-up is often worse than any crime, for she once worked as a member of the impeachment inquiry staff for the House Judiciary Committee investigating the "third-rate burglary" at the Watergate Hotel that doomed Richard Nixon's presidency.
The end came when tapes of presidential conversations were found and became public knowledge with one tape containing that famous 18-1/2-minute gap of erased silence that spoke volumes about the cover-up of the break-in at DNC headquarters.
As RNC Chair Reince Preibus notes, as Richard Nixon's claim that "I am not a crook" unraveled, it was due to the fact that he did not destroy those tapes when he could have. Maybe it was vanity, stubbornness or just garden variety stupidity and arrogance, but he didn't burn them or wipe them clean, even if it might have saved his presidency.
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Nixon's biggest mistake was in trusting very sleazy people.
Nixon had very good reason to be paranoid.
He'd been burned so many times in his life.
. And when his ass was on the line, he turned to people he thought were loyal, and trustworthy.
Instead, he got people like John Dean.
The link goes to a webpage that has information on it. By Colodny, one of the authors of “Silent Coup”. GREAT book that is about Watergate - but SO much more. Detailed notes, old-time investigative reporting. Along with Dean’s instigation of the break-in it details the military trying to derail the State Department (spying on Kissinger, etc.)
If it weren’t for all of the detailed evidence it sounds like something for a conspiracy loon.
Dean sued the writers of the book. Dean lost.
Too kind.Should have arrogant and treacherous in front of the “C” word.
Hillary got fired from the Watergate committee for her lowlife behavior by her DEMOCRAT Boss
she once worked as a member of the impeachment inquiry staff
But she was fired for unethical behavior. Untrustworthy then, untrustworthy now.
bttt
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