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Posted on 11/30/2012 7:51:50 PM PST by dynachrome
Watergate Judge John J. Sirica aided the prosecution in pursuing the White House connection to the Democratic headquarters break-in by providing the special prosecutor information from a probation report in which one of the burglars said he was acting under orders from top Nixon administration officials, according to once-secret documents released Friday by the National Archives.
One newly public transcript of an in-chambers meeting between Sirica, the U.S. District Court judge in charge of the case, and then-Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox in July 1973 shows the judge revealed secret probation reports indicating that E. Howard Hunt had cited orders from officials high up in the Nixon administration. Several of Hunt's co-defendants had previously denied any White House involvement in court testimony, and Sirica told Cox and other prosecutors that he felt the new information "seemed to me significant."
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LOL!
So they are resorting to watergate for deflection?
Well, sure! I burnt your house down, but didn’t George Washington cut down a cherry tree about 200 years ago?
I was in college at the time and did not get to follow the trials as closely as I would have liked but it seemed clear to me that the judge was prejudiced in the extreme.
He also kept handing out maximum sentences to everyone.
ha. That’s a good take on this revelation.
Watergate was small potatoes (potatoes?) compared to the goings on in the WH today.
But we must be reminded about the evil republican dynasty, while ignoring the socialists behind the curtain.
I got their number, and I ain’t dialing.
Wow. Just think. Nixon had to resign over this! It was
NOTHING compared to the chicanery going on now.
Wow. Just think. Nixon had to resign over this! It was
NOTHING compared to the chicanery going on now.
Today? Hell, Kennedy and Johnson got away with far worse and no hell raised about it.
It's the Washington way.
Aw gee.. I was hoping it told us what it was that Nixon did that JFK and LBJ did not do.
Expose dem-o-rats 40 years after the fact. Lie about ‘pubs/conservatives on a daily basis.
The media has suckered us longer than we realize, huh? /s
Yeah, that's right and their response is "We're winning."
Thanks for posting this.. my machine broke and I cannot play memorex so I came looking for interesting threads. :)
Chicanery’s far too refined a C-word. Try corruption, cravenness, calumny, criminality, carnival, communist . . .
A friend of mine who worked in a paper mill gave me a copy of G. Gordon Liddy’s book WILL that he’d rescued from the pulper. It had an addendum of material that Liddy added after he’d read Silent Coup—so then I got a copy of Silent Coup and read it. WOW. It totally over-wrote all of the “accepted mythology” of Watergate. I think it’s highly amusing that John Dean has failed in his lawsuits against Liddy et. al., who have exposed him. It always makes me sick when the talk shows bring out Dean to comment on some Watergate anniversary.
Thanks dynachrome.
John Dean ordered the break in. Then he turned everyone else into Congress.
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