Posted on 06/02/2005 8:21:22 PM PDT by John Robertson
Or to Cox's race against Hilary.
Good night Mo1, I'm off to bed myself, the alarn rings in 3 hours :-(
You know what else is interesting
Woodward wasn't from Flordia .. so why would a Senator from Florida help him get on that ship?
YES!! YES!!
Excellent idea.
Joe Scarborough just interviewed Ed Nixon (Pres. Nixon's brother). What a super nice guy and what dignity (something missing from politicians these days). I can't imagine being that kind while having my family trashed. I would be just as mean and hateful as the people trying to hurt my loved ones. He wasn't. That proves to me the character of that family no matter what anyone says.
"My recollection is that the house of cards was falling and that Dean was simply one who decided to stop trying to keep them from falling."
Dean was the guy I think (ala "Silent Coup") that was behind the Watergate Break In. The main thing at the "DNC Headquarters" they were after was the black book and arraigments for hookers, and to see who they could blackmail. Dean's girlfriend and later wife was one of the hookers.
No Watergate, no Carter. But that doesn't mean Ford would have been President for one term, let alone two. He would have had a hard time making it to the White House on his own. Probably there would still have been some kind of reaction against Nixon in 1976.
"The reds were neck deep in State and Nixon's involvement in HUAC targeted him. For once the French have an appropriate comment, plus ca change, plus se la meme chose. The Post (and the MSM) are circling the wagons to destroy evidence and crow at killing Nixon but their greed (and Felt's family) may not work out like they planned.
"In other words, Felt's admission could blow up the hidden past of the communists in this country almost as much as Venona. Somebody lay a flower on Tailgunner Joe's grave, this could get very interesting.
"It's times like this that I truly treasure this site."
It is also why the pseudo conservatives come out of their cubby holes and try to deflect, stall and mimimize what happens on threads like this on Felt. The left wing will be dealt another severe blow if this blows up and gets out of control.
We saw the same thing with the Swift Boat Threads last year. While most of us tried to build on the power of the message of the Swift Vets, the nay sayers were out in force trying minimize or derail many of those threads. That is happening with a lot of these threads the past two days.
We even saw it as Buckhead and Howlin were destroying the lies of the 60 Minutes thugs last October.
Well the diversion tactics of the old implanted trolls and new phoney trolls will not work on this issue.
I always remember the Nixon girls. I guess I could relate to them. Tricia always seemed so sweet and vulnerable. I couldn't imagine how I would have felt in their place. Like you said, I would have turned hateful. Pat, Julie and Tricia had grace and class.
From Woodward's latest article on how he met Felt: "After four years of service, I had been involuntarily extended an additional year because of the Vietnam War."
From an interview with Woodward's Dad (book: Silent Coup):
--- Al Woodward proudly says his son volunteered for the fifth year after the Navy offered Bob the prestigious assignment linking the Pentagon and the White House. "I don't think he was ordered. He had an option to do it or not, and he decided to do it." the senior Woodward told us. "I guess it was considered somewhat of an honor, and he accepted it."....."the assignment he had was in the basement of the White House." ----
Later on that page his first wife says he was given a choice to stay in California or several other locations, but he chose "the basement of the White House."
---- " I can't conceive of a case in which a man was given an option of chossing his assignment in a situation like that," Admiral Carroll comments; "It could only happen if his commanding officer or SOMEONE FROM THE PENTAGON requested him for a particular assignment".----
(Caps are mine)
The book also details events and interviews (including Moorer) that say that Woodward was a "briefer" of some importance rather than some disheartened sailor pressed into servitude as a "courier".
Woodward's a liar through and through. In "Silent Coup" the authors talk about him getting his first job too - and how he downplays all of his previous military experience. They even say just like a spy downplays his career so as to disappear into the everyday mundane world.
Wonder if Woodward IS a spy - or just a dupe?
I've got my suspicions on Moorer as well.
Woodward is a "Dupe", he and Bernstein were rookies when this scandal unfolded
The CIA was involved in that "Break-In" for a reason, and it wasn't to embarass McGovern and/or his campaign. It was to uncover information on people thought to be a threat to National Security
Good Night All, It's been fun, See ya on Monday, going to the beach for the weekend
James Rosen, Fox News reporter and Watergate buff, said that W & B claimed in their interview today that they only talked to Felt 10 times but in their book they said they talked to him 15 times. That's an easy thing to remember. Why couldn't they remember that "little" detail?!
They are LIARS...
Maybe they have just all been suddenly "outed" by a yet to be named source.
From "Silent Coup", page 394 (my comments in parenthesis):
"Moorer was on the Today show, January 18, 1974, the day of the Post's analysis debunking the seriousness of the espionage charges" (Moorer-Welander-Radcliff spying on Kissinger primarily as I recall. And Woodward used to work for Moorer and Welander - no wonder they debunked it.)
"Moorer made a categorical denial:"the mere thought that the Joint Chiefs of Staff were cut off from sources of information and then set about to establish a system of acquiring this information in an unauthorized way is ludicrous, ridiculous and a lie."
Fast forward 22 years to an article that included an interview with Retired Adm. Moorer in U.S. News & World Report (Dec. 9, 1996) regarding Moorer doing 'consulting' for private museums in obtaining military aircraft and defrauding the gov't.
"When the deal stalled , Skinazi enlisted the help of retired Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Thomas Moorer. Moorer, who is also chairman emeritus of the [U.S. Government's] museum foundation, said he tried to break the deal free, charging Skinazi $20,000 for his services. "I made a lot of phone calls; I can't do those for free," he said.
Navy official refused to discuss either the Skinazi deal or the barter system with U.S. News, but Moorer offered this opinion: "It's RIDICULOUS to think that senior officers in the Navy would be involved in some kind of fraud to bilk the government."
This whole thing in looking back and with Felt's admission makes it seem more like the U.S.S.R. with the military and/or spy agency overthrowing the president.
I listened to calls to Cspan, and a surprising majority felt he was breaking the law (or FBI rules) and he was no hero.
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