NBC News Exclusive: Memo Shows Watergate Prosecutors Had Evidence Nixon White House Plotted Violence

[G_j]

Source: NBC

Watergate prosecutors had evidence that operatives for then-President Richard Nixon planned an assault on anti-war demonstrators in 1972, including potentially physically attacking Vietnam whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, according to a never-before-published memo obtained by NBC News.

The document, an 18-page 1973 investigative memorandum from the Watergate Special Prosecution Force, sheds new light on how prosecutors were investigating attempts at domestic political violence by Nixon aides, an extremely serious charge.

NBC News is publishing the memo, and an accompanying memo about an interview prosecutors conducted with GOP operative Roger Stone, as part of special coverage for the 45th anniversary of the Watergate break-in.

Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/nbc-news-exclusive-memo-shows-watergate-prosecutors-had-evidence-nixon-n773581

[poli3]

1. Stone was critical in helping Bush win two terms

People shouldn't forget that the dirtbag didn't only help Trump. He worked with Atwater for Bush. He worked to start the recount riots in 2000, and killed the reform party (with the help of Trump), to tip that election over to Bush. He was also responsible for rathergate.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/1/10/84715/-

[G_j]

9. A lot like Rove,

could likely be a mentor to him.

[jalan48]

2. Why was this kept secret from the public for all these years?

What is our government protecting us from?

[G_j]

3. exactly

WTF?

[Hassin Bin Sober]

6. +1

[Eyeball_Kid]

4. See "Get Me Roger Stone" on Netflix. The film has a lot of Stone's misdeeds documented.

[Bengus81]

5. Freedom of information act should have had that out in 1975/76? n/t

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. Celebrity

Celebrity Apprentice

[Nitram]

8. I'm sure their bullshit excuse is that they "didn't want to destabilize the country."

Putting a criminal president in prison would have sent a loud and clear message to all politicians who would break the law to gain political power.

[BarbD]

10. Is ignorance bliss?

[Judi Lynn]

11. Thanks for sharing this info. It's exactly something one would have expected from this Republican

villain and his thuggish associates.