Release of Nixon's secret testimony ordered today by federal judge. Finally, truth is on the way.

[seafan]

This is NOT to be considered "a distraction" from the bitter debt ceiling fight.


With the current right wing coup underway, there is every likelihood that this decades-old secret grand jury testimony will be targeted for destruction.


We have been robbed of our historical facts. We have been deprived of making our country better for the last several decades because of the determination of right wing ideologues to bury these truths and keep them buried.


If there were ever a time to understand the plan that these people have for America and to resist it, that time is now.



Nixon's secret Watergate testimony ordered released, Reuters, July 29, 2011

(Reuters) - More than 36 years later, the secret grand jury testimony of President Richard Nixon in the Watergate scandal was ordered released on Friday by a federal judge because of its significance in American history.

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Nixon was questioned about the political scandal during the 1970s that resulted from the break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington.

The scandal caused Nixon to leave office on August 9, 1974, the only resignation of a U.S. president. The scandal also resulted in the indictment, trial, conviction and imprisonment of a number of his top officials.

(U.S. District Judge Royce) Lamberth ruled in the 15-page opinion that the special circumstances, especially the undisputed historical interest in Nixon's testimony, far outweighed the need to keep the records secret. Grand jury proceedings typically remain secret.

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Inside that article is the following information:


The Obama Department of Justice had opposed the release of this information, citing privacy reasons for the people who were named in Nixon's secret testimony.






Paging Octafish.



The truth shall set us free.

[hlthe2b]

1. Pat Buchanan's going to have to crank up the lie generator

and general excuse creator. How will he defend what is likely to be revealed.... though he seems to never cease to try...

[truebrit71]

2. Why am I not surprised that the Obama DOJ opposed the release of this info...

I "hope" that "change" gets here soon, because this 'same old, same old' is really starting to get on my tits..:grr:

[Enrique]

3. look forward, not back... nt

[Raine]

12. Got to agree nt

[msongs]

4. depends on whether any of it is actually true lol nt

[Octafish]

5. Oh! Happy Day!

Thank you for the heads-up, seafan. This must be the then, when they talk about living in interesting times...



President Nixon attends the Big Shootout in Fayetteville. Arkansas Congressman John Paul Hammerschmidt is in Nixon's row on the far left.
Arkansas Governor Winthrop Rockefeller sits between Hammerschmidt and Nixon. Future President George Bush is on the right side of the picture, and Texas Congressman Jim Wright sits behind Nixon.
Henry Kissinger's glasses are barely noticed directly behind the man in the dark hat who is sitting next to Bush (Kissinger sits behind Bush). Source: http://www.fanbase.com/photo/469254

Historians want Nixon grand jury testimony opened

By NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press Writer

Wednesday, September 15, 2010 at 2:44 p.m.

EXCERPT...

Newspapers reported at the time of Nixon testimony that he was questioned about the 18 1/2-minute gap in his Oval Office tapes, changes made to White House transcripts of the recordings, his administration's use of the Internal Revenue Service to harass his political enemies and a $100,000 campaign contribution from billionaire Howard Hughes. But the details of what the president said have never leaked out.

Several Watergate figures filed declarations in support of the petition, including Nixon's White House counsel John Dean, who served prison time for his role in the scandal. Dean wrote that Nixon's testimony covers topics that the president only vaguely discussed in his memoirs and his revelations to the grand jury would help stop "those wanting to twist and distort history."

But not all Nixon historians support release of his testimony. James Rosen, author of "The Strong Man: John Mitchell and the Secrets of Watergate," says not enough time has passed as it had in the Hiss case when the main figures were long dead.

"In this case, President Nixon's chief accuser - John Dean - remains very much alive," said Rosen, a correspondent for Fox News. "The court should wait until all participants in Watergate have died before making public the testimony that President Nixon gave willingly and with the assurance that it would, like all grand jury testimony, remain sealed."

SOURCE: http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/sep/15/historians-want-nixon-grand-jury-testimony-opened/

Perhaps the release will shed some light on Nixon's minders, "The Texans" and the "Bay of Pigs Thing."
No matter what, thanks, seafan, for caring about our nation's future, free from secret government.

[grasswire]

8. wonder if Colson thinks this is good news? n/t

[Octafish]

10. Chuckman lives in fear of already having said too much.

Background to the whole putrid thing...

Richard Nixon's Greatest Cover-Up:

His Ties to the Assassination of President Kennedy

by Don Fulsom

EXCERPT...

Charles Colson — Nixon's presidential emissary to the Teamsters — once raised the theory that Mafia bosses "owned" Rebozo and had gotten "their hooks into Nixon early." By the 1960s, FBI agents keeping tabs on the Mob had identified Rebozo as a "non-member associate of organized crime figures," it is now known. An off-the-books military probe conducted in the waning days of the Nixon presidency found "strong indications of a history of Nixon connections with money from organized crime," the chief investigator later revealed.

In an unpublicized presidential move, Nixon ordered the Justice Department to stop using the words "Mafia" and "Cosa Nostra" to describe the multi-billion dollar national crime syndicate. The president was roundly applauded when he boasted about his order at a private 1971 Oval Office meeting with some 40 members of the Supreme Council of the Sons of Italy. The group's Supreme Venerable, Americo Cortese, thanked Nixon for his moral leadership — declaring, "You are our terrestrial god."

The Nixon administration intervened on the side of Mafia figures in at least 20 trials. And it denied an FBI request to continue an electronic surveillance operation that was starting to penetrate Mob/Teamsters connections.

During the Nixon years, pressure from Washington eased off on Sam Giancana. And long-standing deportation proceedings against CIA-connected mobster Johnny Roselli were dropped. Without going into specifics, government lawyers explained in court that Roselli had performed "valuable services to the national security." A Giancana henchman, Roselli was an important contact man in the Mob/CIA assassination plots against Cuban leader Fidel Castro.

Roselli and Jack Ruby are reported to have met in hotels in Miami during the months before the JFK assassination. Years later, Roselli told columnist Jack Anderson: "When Oswald was picked up, the underworld conspirators feared he would crack and disclose information that might lead to them. This almost certainly would have brought a massive U.S. crackdown on the Mafia. So Jack Ruby was ordered to eliminate Oswald . . ."

CONTINUED...

http://dirtypolitics.50megs.com/dirty.htm

Mr. Roselli ended up dismembered inside a drum, floating in Biscayne Bay. Sweaty Colson remains a true believer type -- all Right...er, I mean, "Reich."

[grasswire]

14. Colson was smart. He did a limited hangout.

He copped a plea immediately to a lesser crime, and went to prison. That was very smart. Then he put on his Christian garments and built an empire of conservative influence. I know whereof I speak here.

[seafan]

9. "Those wanting to twist and distort history" must never have that opportunity.

Wow, there is so much criminality in that photo. Had not seen that one.

Will anticipate hearing from Dean on this, and hearing what is in this testimony, after all of these years of the catastrophic rightward lurch of our country.


Thank YOU, Octafish, for your dedication to the truth.

[Stinky The Clown]

11. Always there's a bush. Always. Fucking crime family.

[AntiFascist]

6. K&R, I wonder if he mentions the CIA....

or how Richard Helms may have had him taken down after Nixon threatened to blackmail him if Helms didn't give Nixon total control (see Haldeman on "the Bay of Pigs Thing").

[WI_DEM]

7. Why are you so sure that 'truth is on the way'?? he could have lied there too.

[roamer65]

13. I really wish they could recover the 18.5 minute gap.

I am damn sure at this point it was a discussion of Nixon's involvement in JFK's assassination.