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 Mac Hypocritically Mum 
 on Felonious Pal Liddy 

Republican won't cough up details despite hammering Obama on Ayers

Chicago Tribune Chicago Tribune Oct 23, 08 2:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - Bad enough for a presidential candidate to pal around with a “lawless radical,” Steve Chapman writes in the Chicago Tribune , but worse to clam up about it even as you blast your opponent for the same thing. That’s exactly where John McCain is over dealings with G. Gordon Liddy, who was convicted for Watergate felonies and since urged radio listeners to kill federal agents. More »

More about:  Barack Obama • Election 2008 • John McCain • McCain 2008 • Bill Ayers • extremists • Watergate

 Book: Dean Ordered
 Watergate Break-In 

Ex-White House counsel rips claim as 'pathetic'

Reuters Reuters May 19, 08 6:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - White House counsel John Dean ordered the Watergate break-in that ended up bringing down his own president, according to a new book on the political bungle of the century. Author James Rosen, Fox News Washington correspondent, said he reached that conclusion after extensive research for his book, The Strong Man: John Mitchell and the Secrets of Watergate . Dean dismissed the claim as "pathetic." More »

More about:  Richard Nixon • Watergate • Senate Watergate committee • Nixon impeachment

 GOP Operative 
 Involved in 
 Spitzer Sting 

But Roger Stone might have gotten involved too late

TPM Muckraker TPM Muckraker Mar 25, 08 4:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - A GOP operative who was a teenage participant in the Watergate affair played a role in uncovering Eliot Spitzer’s prostitution habit, Talking Points Memo reports. But Roger Stone was likely too late to the scene to deserve credit for breaking the story. Stone, who was recently involved in leaving threatening messages on Spitzer’s father’s answering machine, tipped the FBI in November about the governor’s habits. More »

More about:  FBI • Eliot Spitzer • Miami • Watergate • Roger Stone

OPINION

McGovern: Oust Bush, Cheney

Former Dem. nominee rails against duo's 'high crimes and misdemeanors'

Washington Post Washington Post Jan 6, 08 1:07 PM CST
(Newser) - Now is the time to impeach President Bush and Vice President Cheney, declares former Democratic nominee George McGovern in a passionate, if quixotic, plea in the Washington Post . The duo have committed a plethora of "high crimes and misdemeanors," says McGovern, including illegal wiretapping, systematic torture, and substantial lying to the American people. The administration has reduced the US "to a historic low in the eyes of people around the world," he writes. More »

Thompson Balanced in Probes

Thompson split difference between partisanship and truth

New York Times New York Times Aug 27, 07 12:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - With a critical role in several high-profile congressional investigations over three decades, Fred Thompson struggled to balance investigating targets and defending them. In its effort to illuminate the presidential hopeful’s political biography, the Times looks at Thompson’s role in the Watergate hearings, the probe into Reagan’s CIA chief, and the investigation of Clinton’s fund-raising scandals. More »

More about:  Bill Clinton • scandals • Fred Thompson • investigation • Richard Nixon • Watergate

Nixon Library Ends Watergate Whitewash

Tears down Watergate room

Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times Jul 8, 07 5:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - Richard Nixon's library may be backing off its insistence that its honoree was not a crook. The private museum is poised to become a federal institution, and its new director is working to add some nuance to the fiercely pro-Nixon exhibits—starting with the Watergate room. "I can't run a shrine," he told the LA Times. More »

More about:  executive privilege • Richard Nixon • Watergate

CIA Dirty Deeds Detailed in Documents

Illicit 'family jewels'
of Watergate era declassified

Washington Post Washington Post Jun 27, 07 5:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - Assassination plots, illegal wiretapping and spying at political conventions were among the lowlights illuminated in hundreds of pages of CIA documents from the Watergate era declassified yesterday. Illicit acts known in the agency as the "family jewels" included a $150,000 CIA payment to a mobster to kill Fidel Castro and a plan to poison an African premier. More »

More about:  CIA • Michael Hayden • Richard Nixon • Congressional investigations • oversight • Watergate • family jewels

Texas Builds an Ultimate Archive

New Yorker New Yorker Jun 17, 07 4:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Start with 48 Gutenberg Bibles—yes, count 'em, 48. Move on to the corrected proofs of Joyce's Ulysses and then to part of Kerouac's original manuscript for On the Road .  Then finish up with Woodward and Bernstein's Watergate notes. These items and much, much more are in the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center in Austin, Texas. More »

More about:  book • money • literature • Watergate • archive • Jack Kerouac • University of Texas • James Joyce

Congress Probes Private White House E-Mails

May have breached post-Watergate law

Wall Street Journal Wall Street Journal Apr 10, 07 8:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - Use of private e-mail accounts by White House officials is being probed by Democratic lawmakers who charge that they were employed to avoid scrutiny. Accounts set up by the Republican National Committee are intended to keep political activities separate from official business, but they were used in planning the firings of U.S. attorneys last year, the Wall Street Journal notes. More »

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