G. Gordon Liddy testifies he was in the dark about Watergate break-in

Mpls (red)Star Tribune / AP ^ | 7/2/02 | Gretchen Parker

[Valin]

BALTIMORE -- Watergate conspirator G. Gordon Liddy on Monday testified that he was kept in the dark about the 1972 break-in he helped organize - even as he lay in wait that night with radio transmitters at the Watergate hotel.

[jpl]

I think you're confusing Silent Coup with the fiction put out by that proven liar, Bob Woodward and red diaper baby Carl Bernstein.

[newcats]

Nope. Both are mediocre works of imagination, though one was written by a admitted liar.

[skeeter]

It should be interesting. If Liddy wins a lot of folks are going to be eating crow.

This verdict will depend as much on the political bent of the judge as the facts in the case.

A Democrat will NEVER allow the deconstruction of such a sacred piece of liberal lore.

[chaosagent]

He's now back on the air in Houston. Says he has more stations now than ever.

[Cincinatus]

What station in Houston?

[LivingNet]

If it was John Dean's plot to protect his future wife then why did Agnew and Nixon take the fall for it?

Seems to me it had to be about tapping the DNC or Nixon would never have resigned over it.

[Valin]

Stupidity? Ego? The inability of most politicians to admit they screwed up? I'm not even saying I believe the writers of this book are right, but they do make a good case for John Dean being behind the whole thing. What Nixon didn't seem to understand is that at just about anytime in this whole thing if he would have stood up in front of the American people and said (words to the affect) We did it, and it was wrong, I apologize to you the American people and I promise it won't happen again. That would have basicly ended it. But for whatever reason he felt he couldn't or wouldn't do that so after 25+ years the left and the media finally Tricky Dick.

[San Jacinto]

I was refering to Silent Coup.

Liddy did not write Silent Coup. Lynn Colodny and Richard Getlin did. I doubt that you have read it or you would have known that. Also, it is the most researched and factually verifiable book on Watergate in existence. Its sources are well documented, unlike Woody's and Bernie's books--All the President's Men and The Final Days. Or maybe you think Woody and Bernie got all those made up quotes from actually being there. What, were they hiding behind the curtain in the White House to overhear Nixon praying or talking to Lincoln's portrait? Or was "Deep Throat really RMN himself?

Oh yeah, and Woody really did get that death bed confession from Bill Casey. Sure he did.

[San Jacinto]

If it was John Dean's plot to protect his future wife then why did Agnew and Nixon take the fall for it? Seems to me it had to be about tapping the DNC or Nixon would never have resigned over it.

In terms of Nixon's resignation, the motive for the break in did not matter. He used the Presidency to try and thwart or stall the investigation. He was going to be impeached, so he resigned.

[weegee]

Nope. Both are mediocre works of imagination, though one was written by a admitted liar.

Your former president Clinton lied under oath but you still believed him...

[mikeb704]

Your former president Clinton lied under oath but you still believed him...

But that really doesn't count because it was - drum roll, please - ONLY ABOUT SEX.

Michael M. Bates: My Side of the Swamp

[newcats]

Your former president Clinton lied under oath but you still believed him...

Ahhhh...the innocent bliss of ASSumption. I never voted for Clinton. Hear that...so therefore your ASSumption is dead wrong.
Just because I think Giddy is a lying piece of crap, does not meant that I am a Clintoon lover. Guess thinking for myself and not being a sheep is not allowed here without baseless ASSumptions being made.
Giddy lied under oath, and YOU still believe him. Why is that any better than what you WRONGFULLY accused me of doing?

[weegee]

The G-Man is back on the radio in Houston on 700AM KSEV. He's on from 9PM to (I believe) 11PM. Dan Patrick is the station manager who dropped him when Dan had 950AM; after the media bruhaha about "right-wing hate radio" following OKC.

Dan still finds Liddy to be an odd man (putting a flame to his hand, etc.) but sounded like he now regrets acting in haste in ending the Houston broadcasts and is the man who brought him back.

[weegee]

From other threads you've revealed your personality. I still am of the mind that you are a former banned poster. Maybe not austim. Should I keep running a list of "no current Freeper by that name" posters until I 'out' you?

[newcats]

From other threads you've revealed your personality. I still am of the mind that you are a former banned poster. Maybe not austim. Should I keep running a list of "no current Freeper by that name" posters until I 'out' you?

Do as you wish. I have never gone by the name autism nor any other here.
I am flattered that you would take such a personal interest in me. :) Geeeee...I am blushing.

[San Jacinto]

You are obviously a pretty uninformed guy.

You thought Liddy wrote Silent Coup and now you say he "lied under oath.

Really? He never testified in any of the Watergate trials or before the grand jury.

If you are talking about Maxie Wells' lawsuit, you cannot point to any false testimony. He readily admits his role in the break-in, and he says he agrees with Colodny's conclusions regarding the origins of the break-in. No lies there.

[newcats]

Thanx for setting me straight, but I still reserve the right to not like the guy.

[SGCOS]

Liddy in the Dark about Watergate..

Well, DUH...You don't rob a place with the lights ON !!!!

&^)

[BluesDuke]

Believed to be The Washington Post's Woodward and Bernstein's "Deep Throat."

Actually, Silent Coup (a very powerful book) makes the argument that Deep Throat was actually Alexander Haig, who'd succeeded the unfortunate H.R. Haldeman as Richard Nixon's White House chief of staff.