We aren't just talking about coverups, here. Let's take a trip back through time:
Nixon ordered Watergate break-in, ex-aide says
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Former White House counsel John Dean said Sunday there's at least a "shred of evidence" to support a new allegation that President Nixon ordered the Watergate break-in.
The widespread belief is that Nixon was forced to resign because of his role covering up the break-in, but that he didn't order the crime to begin with.
Jeb Stuart Magruder, who was Nixon's deputy campaign director, says he heard the president tell John Mitchell, who was running Nixon's re-election campaign in 1972, to go ahead with a plan to break into the Democratic Party headquarters at the Watergate complex and bug the party chairman's phone.
Magruder, in a PBS documentary set to be broadcast Wednesday and in an Associated Press interview last week, says he was meeting with Mitchell on March 30, 1972, when he heard Nixon tell Mitchell over the phone to go ahead with the plan...Dean told CNN on Sunday that he was surprised by Magruder's revelation but has since found an intriguing White House tape he thinks might bolster Magruder's claim.
"It's something I had never heard before Magruder made it, and I can't say that I have any evidence that right," Dean said on CNN's "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer." "I can't say I have any evidence that he is wrong." And then, there was his misuse of the FBI for political purposes. Remember the "Enemies List?" He also liked to use the IRS to pick on people, which is a CRIME:
http://www.colorado.edu/AmStudies/lewis/2010/jews.htmNixon Orders the Government to go after "Rich Jews"
According to recently released Whitehouse tapes, President Nixon pushed for IRS tax audits of wealthy Jewish contributors to his Democratic rivals, demanding of a top aide, "What about the rich Jews?...Go after'em like a son of a bitch."
"You know the big Jewish contributors to the Democrats. Could we please investigate some of the (expletive)? That's all," he tells another aide.
Nixon tells John Ehrlichman: "John, we have the power. Are we using it to investigate contributors to Hubert Humphrey, contributors to Muskie--the Jews, you know, that are stealing in every direction?"
"Now here's the point, Bob," Nixon tells Bob Haldeman, "please get me the names of the Jews. You know, the big Jewish contributors to the Democrats. Could we please investigate some of the (expletives)? that's all."And he clearly ordered this burglary--it's on TAPE:
http://www.colorado.edu/AmStudies/lewis/2010/burglary.htm Tapes: Nixon Sought Brookings Break-In
by Joan Biskupic, Washington Post, Nov. 22, 1996
President Nixon ordered a break-in and theft at the Brookings Institution in June 1971 so he could learn what information the public policy center had collected on the Vietnam war, according to newly released White House tapes.
In a conversation that took place a year before the Watergate break-in that eventually drove him from office, Nixon told Chief of Staff H.R.Hadelman to "break into the place, rifle the files, and bring them out....I want a break-in. I want the Brookings safe cleaned out. And have it cleaned out in a way that makes somebody else look bad.''
At one point, with characteristic gruffness and punctuating each word, Nixon said, "You go in to inspect...and clean it out....I want Brookings, just break in, break in, and take it out. You understand."
Hadelman's responded by saying: "I don't have any problem with breaking in."
The Senate Watergate Committee report detailed the White House's concern that Brookings was planning a study based on Vietnam papers similar to those that had been leaked to the New York Times and Washington Post. The Panel took testimony that Nixon aide Charles W. Colson planned to firebomb the building and steal the documents, an allegation Colson denied....Nixon was every bit as evil as the Monkey. The difference was Nixon was SMART, he had foreign policy skills, but he couldn't be bothered with the push and pull of a domestic agenda. And sprinkled amongst the bright bulbs in his employ, he had a bunch of GOONS on his staff. The Monkey, on the other hand, is OBTUSE...he's cunning, but not nuanced. And his staff is peppered with the lazy, the entitled and the mediocre. It's a fucking recipe for disaster. There are NO adults in charge.
AND ON EDIT--Foley DID commit a crime. Read the legislation he co-authored. Soliciting that child over the internets is illegal. You don't have to put the organ into an orafice to make it a crime anymore....
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