Trump rips Democrats ahead of testimony from 'sleazebag' Watergate lawyer

The Hill ^ | 6/09/19 | CHRIS MILLS RODRIGO

[piasa]

And now the Dema have Xavier Becerra on the tail of Liddy’s son...how convenient.

[ImpBill]

Actually you are thinking of the Rose Law firm and the Whitewater scandal.

Watergate happened back when Richard Nixon was President.

[Safetgiver]

She was fired for it. Back when Dems still held truth and dirty tricks as anathema to justice. WAAAAY back when.

[Libloather]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3116052/posts

[ImpBill]

Well bless my soul. I stand corrected and tender my apologies.

And they say an old dog can’t learn, much less tricks.

Thanks for correcting me and adding to my knowledge base.

[gr8eman]

I read it was a false flag and were supposed to get caught! They just broke into the office(s) and made it obvious, then a security guard just happened to show up! I believe that over any other BS!

[sparklite2]

Now, here’s the thing with Dean’s testimony. It was startlingly granular. By that, I mean, he wouldn’t just say, “Halderman took a cab to work.”

He’d say, “Halderman came in with Carlisle and said ‘My wife’s car stalled today, so I had to take it to the mechanic.’ Then Carlisle asked if that happened very often, and Halderman said, ‘More often that I like. The cab fare to here is outrageous.’ Then Nixon asked, ‘Why don’t you lease a car?’”

All of his testimony was like that. He recalled things in minute detail to the extent you thought, nobody can remember entire conversations verbatim all the time. So you thought, he’s making stuff up.

Then Butterfield (?) made a comment about there being a hidden recording system in Nixon’s office.

Oh boy. The tapes were confiscated and transcripts made from them. And you know what? Dean’s testimony matched the tapes. This guy had a phenomenal memory and never wavered from the truth.

So when I hear someone say, “He helped the Democrats by lying in his testimony to help them with their coup against Nixon,” I think, paranoid baloney. Dean didn’t know about the tapes when he testified and could have lied like crazy and no one would have known. But the tapes proved his testimony was true.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Or there's psychologist and memory researcher Ulric Neisser's review of Dean's testimony and the tapes:

"Neisser found that, despite Dean's confidence, the tapes proved that his memory was anything but a tape recorder. Dean failed to remember any conversations verbatim, and often failed to recall the gist of conversations correctly."

[Bayou City]

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[<1/1,000,000th%]

Then there's Geoff Shepard, Nixon Defense team member who has spent 20 years researching original documents and memoranda as well as investigative materials and judicial transcripts on Watergate affairs and events.

He points out:

"Prosecutors failed to provide exculpatory evidence of John Dean’s lies and changes in his story as he tried to get immunity or leniency."

Shepard goes into great detail "on the treacherous, deceitful and dissembling John Dean, who set up the criminal intelligence activities, then ran a botched coverup, and when in trouble for his perfidy, jumped ship and turned witness against his bosses, and therefore was portrayed by the Nixon haters as some kind of virtuous hero. Dean was horrified by the prospect of jail and became a liar and false accuser, never spending a day in jail."

[sparklite2]

Memory being what it is, I seem to have been largely correct.

As for: Dean failed to remember any conversations verbatim, and often failed to recall the gist of conversations correctly.

"It was not until information about secret White House tape recordings having been made by President Nixon (disclosed in testimony by Alexander Butterfield, on July 16) and the tapes having been subpoenaed and analyzed that many of Dean's accusations were largely substantiated."

As for: " Dean was horrified by the prospect of jail and became a liar and false accuser, never spending a day in jail."

"His guilty plea to a single felony in exchange for becoming a key witness for the prosecution, ultimately resulted in a reduced sentence, which he served at Fort Holabird outside Baltimore, Maryland."