Nixon: raw watergate tape: 'smoking gun' section

[hankbob2000]

Discussing/proposing/agreeing to perform an illegal act (interfering with a criminal investigation) is conspiracy.

[r3dfl4ck4l1]

note the irony in this conversation---Halderman calling Mark Felt (aka Deep Throat) highly cooperative and ambitious

[gaguy1967]

There was never any Obstruction of Justice committed. They talked about the possibility. of doing so, but never actually did it.

[themeaningoflife38]

After Howard Hunt was arrested for the WG burglary, the FBI seized the contents of his personal safe.Nixon told his buddy FBI director Pat Gray that the documents were "political dynamite" and should not see the light of day.Director Gray took the docs home and burned them in his fireplace.While in prison Hunt threatened to start talking, he was released early and given $1million to keep quiet.Soon after his release his wife was killed in a plane crash,Hunt believed the gov was behind her death.

[themeaningoflife38]

Bernard Barker was ID'd by Dallas Deputy Seymour Weitzman as the man behind the picket fence in Dealey Plaza when JFK was murdered.Barker showed Secret Service ID and was let go.Barker was a long time CIA agent & FBI informant.He was also involved in the war on Castro and the Bay of Pigs invasion.

Watergate was all about the JFK murder,if WG had been investigated it would have uncovered who was behind the murder of JFK.Most WG burglars were anti castro cubans and bay of pigs veterans.

[wunderdoggy]

@themeaningoflife38 Sadly though it seems Weitzman did ID Barker while sequestered in a mental hospital. This is perhaps why it got little play. Yet another whose credibilty was put into question.

[themeaningoflife38]

@wunderdoggy Officer DV Harkness also found 3 men behind the Texas School Book Depository who all claimed to be Secret Service Agents.Harkness told the Warren Commission that he wasnt able to verify thier identity.The Secret Service has always mantained that they had NO agents on the ground in Dealey Plaza that day.

[themeaningoflife38]

@wunderdoggy I've never heard of Weitzman being in a mental hospital.Are there any official records or documents concerning this? Weitzman did interviews with CBS where he changed his story and claimed the rifle they found was the Carcano.I guess that has no crediblility since he was in a mental hospital.

Of course we all know that CBS television was founded by a former high level OSS officer.

[wunderdoggy]

@themeaningoflife38 If my memory is correct the hospitalization is alluded to in the HSCA transcripts.

[wunderdoggy]

@wunderdoggy Yes, I believe so but it doesn't necessarily make it so.

[themeaningoflife38]

@wunderdoggy I guess if Weitzman was in a mental hospital then we cant believe what he said when he changed his story and agreed that the rifle was the 6.5mm carcano and not the 7.65mm Mauser that he and Roger Craig found.

Of course we all know that it was a common tactic by the cia & fbi in those days to put people in mental hospitals in order to discredit thier testimony.

[wunderdoggy]

@themeaningoflife38 Exactly. 

[Rabilay1]

But the impression given is that all these fellas did was sit around playing tit-for-tat games with the CIA and privateers. But the Nixon government did create a new kind of government, with it's division of departmental roles, commerce, human resources and such.

[Rabilay1]

Nixon's role was to be the President of the United States of America. A rather serious political role I think. But Haldeman was doing here what was expected of him. Contain this problem as much as possible. Haldeman wasn't a ploitician.

[mooch9668]

Did they ever do any work or did they just politic all day?

[toxicodendron1]

@mooch9668 Sir - that's what a politician calls "work"!

[sniperdude5236]

@mooch9668 politic all day