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Long-sealed Watergate documents may be released
Yahoo ^ | 6/02/12 | JESSICA GRESKO

Posted on 06/03/2012 3:40:50 PM PDT by Libloather

Long-sealed Watergate documents may be released
By JESSICA GRESKO | Associated Press – Sat, Jun 2, 2012

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Department of Justice says at least some materials sealed as part of the court case against seven men involved in the 1972 Watergate burglary should be released.

The agency responded Friday to a request by a Texas history professor who is seeking access to materials he believes could help answer lingering questions about the burglary that led to President Richard Nixon's resignation.

Luke Nichter of Texas A&M University-Central Texas in Killeen, Texas, wrote the chief judge of the federal court in Washington to ask that potentially hundreds of pages of documents be unsealed. The judge said in a letter made public earlier this year that the professor had "raised a very legitimate question" about whether the material should remain sealed, and he ordered the Department of Justice to respond with any objections.

Justice attorney Elizabeth Shapiro wrote in a court document filed Friday that the office would not oppose the release of at least some documents.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 1972; documents; released; texas; watergate
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No document is safe with Hussein.
1 posted on 06/03/2012 3:40:56 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

What would happen if a Texas professor had lingering suspicions about Barry’s birth?


2 posted on 06/03/2012 3:43:04 PM PDT by lacrew (Mr. Soetoro, we regret to inform you that your race card is over the credit limit.)
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To: Libloather

I’m not surprised that some dumbass college “perfessor” is still worried about Watergate. Normal people who work for a living have moved on.


3 posted on 06/03/2012 3:47:43 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Free Stuff or Freedom! You Decide 2012.)
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To: Libloather
Republican documents can always be unsealed if a Democrat wants to see them. That's how Obama won his first election, right? The Republican candidate had sealed divorce records. Voila! Open to the world, because Obama wished it so.

Obama's records? Not so open.

4 posted on 06/03/2012 3:48:49 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Obama needs more time. After all -- Rome wasn't burned in a day.)
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To: Libloather

let’s compare watergate to the wholesale export of nuclear secrets and weapons tech to china under bjclinton

then compare it to fast & furious or Barry-gate


5 posted on 06/03/2012 3:49:17 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: Libloather

Wow. They are REALLY STRETCHING to smear Republicans. What pond scum.


6 posted on 06/03/2012 3:49:56 PM PDT by originalbuckeye
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To: lacrew
Anything that is released will surely not be favorable to the Republican party. Stupid and very sloppy mission. The chain could have stopped very shortly if some idiot from the campaign had just taken responsibility and there was no ‘’green door’’
7 posted on 06/03/2012 3:50:36 PM PDT by shadeaud ( “Pray for Obama. Psalm 109:8”. Just doing my duty a Christian)
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To: Libloather

Divert and distract. The idea is remind people about Nixon and the corrupt GOP. All of this is meant to help Obama.


8 posted on 06/03/2012 3:53:09 PM PDT by kabar
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Never could see the big deal about watergate. Political offices get broken into all the time...and robbed...and bugged....and whatever. Plain everyday politics....


9 posted on 06/03/2012 3:58:36 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Sacajaweau

That makes two of us. I always saw “Watergate” as a bunch of huffing and puffing about nothing by the political buffoons in Washington. Kind of the Seinfeld Show of politics.


10 posted on 06/03/2012 4:03:58 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Free Stuff or Freedom! You Decide 2012.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

I’m normal. I’m not a dumbass. I have a keen interest in history, and I would be most interested in this information.

Do you shred your kids’ childhood photos? After all, they’ve “moved on.”


11 posted on 06/03/2012 4:05:55 PM PDT by Jedidah ("In those days Israel had no king. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.")
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To: Jedidah

If you ever figure out what the big deal was with “Watergate”, why don’t you fill the rest of us in on it. What happened at the Watergate Hotel FORTY YEARS AGO HAPPENS EVERY DAMN DAY in politics these days.


12 posted on 06/03/2012 4:09:53 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Free Stuff or Freedom! You Decide 2012.)
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To: originalbuckeye

“What pond scum.”

Yep. You haven’t seen anything yet. Just wait a while.


13 posted on 06/03/2012 4:11:20 PM PDT by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)
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To: Libloather

Instead of Bush, they want to distract with Nixon.


14 posted on 06/03/2012 4:14:43 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: Libloather

How about we go back a little further and see if we can find the answer to some lingering questions...

...say November 1963.


15 posted on 06/03/2012 4:16:38 PM PDT by 11Bush
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To: Libloather

Waiting for Obummer’s records to be released.

There isn’t the same level of press curiosity about LBJ’s abuses of power.


16 posted on 06/03/2012 4:18:56 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Washington could not tell a lie, Nixon could not tell the truth, Obama can't tell the difference.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

The real story within Watergate was about John Dean’s call girl friend, later his wife.


http://oatneyworld.blogspot.com/2005/06/liddy-john-deans-wife-was-call-girl.html

Liddy: John Dean’s wife was call girl

The wife of John Dean, Elizabeth Beiner Dean, was a prostitute before she married the President’s Chief Counsel, G. Gordon Liddy has said. Apparently, the future Mrs. Dean willingly participated in an FBI undercover operation whose goal was to bust the very call girl ring that she was involved in. Apparently, the woman had a special relationship with the Counsel to President Nixon...she would eventually become his wife.

According to Liddy, who was one of President Nixon’s Watergate “plumbers,” the Madame of the whore house in which Mrs. Dean worked could be seen in the Dean wedding photos!

Mrs. Dean’s superior in the FBI investigation, which was occurring across from the Watergate hotel: W. Mark Felt.


17 posted on 06/03/2012 4:20:30 PM PDT by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)
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To: Sacajaweau

Yep - I wonder how that era would have been different if there had been an alternate media like we have today. NO ONE questioned or checked anything that Woodward and Bernstein reported, so we may never know if there was a Dan Rather moment in that entire scandal.


18 posted on 06/03/2012 4:20:50 PM PDT by TexasNative2000 (Jimmy Carter's incompetence + Richard Nixon's paranoia = Barack Obama)
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To: Libloather

Under normal circumstances I think it would interesting to see what documents was sealed....but under this corrupt DOJ nothing is normal and who knows what distraction and other crap will be released to make political hay....


19 posted on 06/03/2012 4:23:56 PM PDT by Popman (When you elect a clown: expect a circus...)
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To: FlingWingFlyer; Jedidah
If you ever figure out what the big deal was with “Watergate”, why don’t you fill the rest of us in on it.

Perhaps I can help.

The DEM party was trying to blackmail members of the Republican party. Supposedly they had some 'incriminating' photographs (could it have been some Republican bigwig with a COLOMBIAN HOOKER? ( Nah, stuff like that never happens, right?) stored in a safe in a room at the Watergate Hotel.

The REP party (campaign manager) needed to know if it was true, and who it was.

So... they had some 'plumbers' (known usually as government 'operatives') break in to get the photos.

There were no photos, it was all a wild goose chase designed to catch the 'burglars' in the act, and use it against the Republican Party Candidate(Nixon).

It worked.

20 posted on 06/03/2012 4:24:16 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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