Shocking New Evidence Reveals Depths of 'Treason' and 'Treachery' of Watergate and Iran-Contra
http://www.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/shocking-new-evidence-reveals-depths-treason-and-treachery-watergate-and-iranA favorite saying of Official Washington is that “the cover-up is worse than the crime.” But that presupposes you accurately understand what the crime was. And, in the case of the two major U.S. government scandals of the last third of the Twentieth Century – Watergate and Iran-Contra – that doesn’t seem to be the case.
Indeed, newly disclosed documents have put old evidence into a sharply different light and suggest that history has substantially miswritten the two scandals by failing to understand that they actually were sequels to earlier scandals that were far worse. Watergate and Iran-Contra were, in part at least, extensions of the original crimes, which involved dirty dealings to secure the immense power of the presidency.
Shortly after Nixon took office in 1969, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover informed him of the existence of the file containing national security wiretaps documenting how Nixon’s emissaries had gone behind President Lyndon Johnson’s back to convince the South Vietnamese government to boycott the Paris Peace Talks, which were close to ending the Vietnam War in fall 1968.In the case of Watergate – the foiled Republican break-in at the Democratic National Committee in June 1972 and Richard Nixon’s botched cover-up leading to his resignation in August 1974 – the evidence is now clear that Nixon created the Watergate burglars out of his panic that the Democrats might possess a file on his sabotage of Vietnam peace talks in 1968.
The disruption of Johnson’s peace talks then enabled Nixon to hang on for a narrow victory over Democrat Hubert Humphrey. However, as the new President was taking steps in 1969 to extend the war another four-plus years, he sensed the threat from the wiretap file and ordered two of his top aides, chief of staff H.R. “Bob” Haldeman and National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger, to locate it. But they couldn’t find the file.
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wanted to make damn sure another New Deal would never happen again.
The most ostensible example of their determination to thwart another FDR-style presidency is the GOP-led limit on presidential terms. It's not proven conclusively, but there are indications that Prescott may have been involved in some way in the so-called "business plot" to stage a coup against FDR and install Smedley Butler as their strongman. They didn't count on Butler, a war hero, exposing the plot.
I believe all the shadowy things that went on behind the alphabet soup of assassinations in the '60s (JFK, RFK, MLK) is the dark legacy of that determination and extends into Nixon's dirty deeds and later October Surprise and beyond.
Reagan traded arms for hostages before the release of the Iran hostages. The deal was contingent upon Iran not releasing the hostages until after the reagan-Carter election was over. Besides the treason of supplying iran with weapons, it was compounded by the election stealing that the "bargain" created.
The hostages remained captives until after reagan "won" the presidency. What an "illustrious" beginning for the man(?) who began the death spiral of America...
If only we had a group of investigative journalist who would take the time and effort to expose what the repukicans really stand for. What is even sadder is the inability of the American people to care, and believe what those assholes say.
