Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 14:50:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: dicconf <dicconf at radix.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>

On Thu, 2 Jun 2005, Mike B. wrote (about Watergate):

> and yelling about it?  It's not like it was the first illegal wiretap in
> history. or the first time a president abused his authority.  I wondered if
> it might be to draw attention away from what it was the burglars were
> trying to take.  They broke in in order to bug a phone at the Democratic
> campaign headquarters...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?

Other accounts were that they hoped to find evidence linking the extreme
left Democrats with Fidel Castro.  As if they would run any such contacts
through the national office, yeah.

-- Dick Eney