OK, So Did the CIA Engineer Watergate to Get Rid of Nixon as Tucker Carlson Asserted?

PJ Media ^ | 01/23/2023 | Robert Spencer

[SeekAndFind]

Tucker Carlson made some explosive assertions Friday, suggesting that the CIA and the FBI brought down Richard Nixon because he was on to their efforts to undermine the American system as the Founding Fathers had intended it to run and knew that the CIA was involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Carlson’s segment quickly became wildly controversial, but is it true? We may never know for sure — and that in itself demonstrates yet again the need to demand and enforce complete transparency and accountability from these agencies that all too easily can go rogue.

Carlson said: “Richard Nixon was re-elected in 1972 by the largest margin of the popular vote ever recorded before or since. Nixon got 17 million more votes than his opponent. Less than two years later, he was gone. He was forced to resign and in his place, an obedient servant of the federal agencies called Gerald Ford took over the White House.” Carlson went on to explain that Nixon believed that “elements in the federal bureaucracy were working to undermine the American system of government and had been doing that for a long time. He often said that.” He suggested that CIA and FBI operatives orchestrated both the Watergate break-in and the two-year-long firestorm that brought Nixon down.

According to Carlson, “on June 23, 1972, Nixon met with the then–CIA director, Richard Helms, at the White House. During the conversation, which thankfully was tape-recorded, Nixon suggested he knew ‘who shot John,’ meaning President John F. Kennedy. Nixon further implied that the CIA was directly involved in Kennedy’s assassination, which we now know it was. Helms’s telling response? Total silence, but for Nixon, it didn’t matter because it was already over

[SeekAndFind]

Four days before, on June 19, the Washington Post had published the first of many stories about a break-in at the Watergate office building.”

This doesn’t add up to the CIA deciding to take out Nixon, since the break-in and the Post story both happened before the president’s conversation with Helms, unless Nixon had enunciated this before the break-in.

[Guenevere]

I believe Tucker

[fightin kentuckian]

Tucker said that 4 of the 5 robbers worked for the CIA. Sounds like a set up from the get go. Remember, the robbers took the initiative. Nixon was informed after the fact. They had already got rid of Agnew.

[escapefromboston]

I believed it before Tucker said anything. That being said: I wouldn’t bet my life on it.

[fightin kentuckian]

I agree, I think Tucker tells the truth no matte what. Two people I trust with the truth are Tucker and Glen Beck. Beck hyper ventilates a lot but he doesn’t lie.

[TakebackGOP]

I don’t think it had anything to do with JFK’s assassination.

[Wuli]

For most of its Life the Washington Post was known to be the Party paper of the Democratic Party, and perennial leaker of things passed to it “anonymously” by the “intelligence community”. It did not take much for Nixon to connect some of the dots.

[cotton1706]

This was also in the book The Age if Reagan.

Nixon was supposedly going to gut and reorganize the federal agencies.

And they weren’t having that.

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

I’ve said that for a while. Government insiders including LBJ, Im surprised everybody doesn’t think that.

[Williams]

Agnew was taking bribes as governor and as VP.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

G Gordan always said that it was John Dean who set it up.

[allendale]

Hard to believe that four ex CIA operatives would allow themselves to be found out by one unarmed security guard. More likely it was an inside job and they meant to be “arrested”.

[sauropod]

bkmk

[fwdude]

I don’t know if I fully believe Tucker, but I have come to believe that Watergate was more of a set up then we are led to believe.

[iontheball]

The more I contemplate the world around me, the more I believe our world is choreographed to produce the plan designed by world architects. Who sits at the top of the pyramid remains the eternal question. We are just ‘extras’ or bystanders in this production. Very few world event are spontaneous as we are taught to believe.

[citizen]

I don’t think it took a face meeting w/ Helms for the PTB to decide Nixon had to go. And the W Post would have helped set up anyone if it got them super-newspaper status. According to G Gordon Liddy, they were just a basic Washingon rag before Watergate.

[Falconspeed]

“Watergate” was a media circus, just like Clarence Thomas hearings, Mueller’s Russian probe and Covid deaths. Underneath the media hysteria was Nixon, a very flawed man with excellent political skills.

[pjoseph]

Reading further in the article “Tucker Carlson actually got the date wrong. The Nixon/Helms conversation didn’t take place on June 23, 1972, but on Oct. 8, 1971 “
So I read it that Nixon made the comment well before the break in.

[dragonblustar]

I have to be careful with Tucker sometimes. He acts a little too Rachel Maddow for my tastes. You have to fact check him like everyone else. Most times he’s spot on but then he gets into topics that are over his head then he spews utter nonsense.

[TexasGator]

“I think Tucker tells the truth no matte what. Two people I trust with the truth are Tucker and Glen Beck. Beck hyper ventilates a lot but he doesn’t lie.”

He just fabricates