Nixon made mis-steps after the Watergate break-in. His people made the initial break-inw ithout authorization. The president found out afterwards and made the mistake of trying to cover for people who had intended to be helping him.
Obama orchestrated and cleared everything about this during the election and after the inauguration. It’s not so much that he “knew”. It’s not the same as “what did the president know and when did he know it”. This is a case of direct control and supervision from start to finish. A coup by the outgoing president.
Outrageous.
N-i-c-e take.