Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 11:50:10 -0400
From: Steve Smith <sgs at aginc.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: The end of a Washington mystery
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

Mike B. wrote:
> At 05:48 AM 6/2/05 -0700, Drew Bittner wrote:
>
>>Felt said that there was no other way to protect the
>>integrity of the FBI, and I believe him; no prosecutor
>>would have considered taking on the President. He was
>>a courageous man-- it's Nixon, Liddy, Haldeman, and
>>the others who betrayed the nation.
>
> Agreed, but let's not forget what we are actually talking about here: a
> third rate bungled burglary to tap a phone and a coverup of it, not
> something really serious,  ...

G. Gordon Liddy was never involved in a "third rate bungled" anything.
Listen to his show.(:-)

Watergate was a minor burglary like Al Capone was a third- rate tax
cheat.  That burglary wasn't to bug a phone -- it was to *replace* a bug
that had failed.  The purpose of the "plumbers" was to rig the 1972
election.  Now, the way I read the economic tea leaves, Nixon was
unbeatable.  The economy was humming along nicely and Vietnam was
"winding down" (just in time for a pre- election cease fire).  The
Committee to Re Elect the President (CREEP.  Doesn't *anybody* look at
those acronyms??) was the slimiest bunch of scumbags we'd ever had
running an election campaign.

 > ...what was it that the Democrats were so afraid they
> might overhear, and even more afraid might get out to the public if they
> didn't create a big diversion?  I called Liddy's show one day and asked
> him.

I trust Liddy's recollections rather less than I trusted Hunter
Thompson's.  His ego has total control of his memory.  There were
Republicans on the committee -- why didn't they ask?  There *is*
testimony implicating the Plumbers in mass murder.  That one never got
followed up on either.

On a lighter note, if you want the *real* explanation of what was going
on in Watergate, see the movie "Dick".  It fits the events *exactly.
Be sure to watch the credits all the way to the end.

--
Steve Smith                                    sgs at aginc dot net
Agincourt Computing                            http://www.aginc.net
"Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense."