New Watergate Book Says John Dean Ordered Break - In

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http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/washington/politics-usa-watergate.html

A new book on the scandal that brought down President Richard Nixon alleges that White House counsel John Dean ordered the infamous Watergate break-in in 1972, a charge Dean strongly rejected.

James Rosen, a Fox News Channel correspondent in Washington, made the charge based on interviews and an exhaustive review of documents for "The Strong Man: John Mitchell and the Secrets of Watergate."

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Dean told Reuters, "I hope this book is being sold as fiction, for if it is not, readers are being defrauded."

"His conclusions are pathetic. Rosen has simply ignored all the sworn testimony to the contrary, including my own," he said.

[L. Coyote]

1. Never trust a known criminal to write history. Verify, verify, verify.

Trusting John Dean to give us the "whole truth" about Nixon
is like trusting Cheney to tell all about Bush!!

[hlthe2b]

9. You trust a Fox reporter over Dean?

Well, ok...It isn't like the RW might have a motive to lie about Dean, now, is it?.....:crazy:

[RaleighNCDUer]

2. What? Dean alleges that a Fox News correspondent would

rewrite history?

How dare he?

[Vanje]

3. A Fox News correspondant would never lie

nt

[hisownpetard]

4. I watch him being interviewed by Brian Lamb. Rosen appeared to be a Nixonophile

and came off as so impressed with himself he could barely allow the words to leave his lips, so precious were they to him.
A true Rethuglican a la Ehrlichmann and Haldemann. Wouldn't read the book if you paid me.

[Prophet 451]

5. BWA-HA-HA!

Dean writes several books dicing the Bush admin, Faux "News" man writes book accusing Dean of being behind something nefarious. Could this possibly be any more transparent?

Incidently, am I the only person who thinks the myth of balance has gone too far when the NYS says "a charge Dean strongly rejected" rather than "a charge which is complete fiction"? I don't want balance in my news, I want facts.

[caligirl]

6. Fox is the very definition of fraud being perpetrated on the public.

[MidwestTransplant]

7. A Faux journalist passing off fiction for news....shocking development.

[Daphne08]

8. This is bull. I watched all the Watergate Hearings. n/t

[MinM]

10. "The Hoax" (2007)

The 'truth', as with most of these stories, probably 'lies' somewhere in between.

Lisa Pease talks about how not much has ever been written about the motives for the Watergate break-in, in these 2 stories:

"The Hoax" (2007)

Every now and then a little Real History sneaks into the cinema. The movie "The Hoax" tells the story of Clifford Irving's attempt to sell an "autobiography" of Howard Hughes written with or without the help of the man himself...

According to screenwriter William Wheeler, several people in a position to know think Robert Maheu, the CIA man chosen to head the Castro assassination plots, who also worked with Hughes for years, aided Irving in his project with the goal of getting that damning Hughes loan to Nixon info to the public. Seeing as the CIA was definitely working against Nixon during his second administration, this theory makes sense. Nixon had already lost his race for the Governor of California in 1962 when a $200,000 loan from Hughes to his brother was made public. When Nixon realized that the more recent Hughes loan to Nixon via Bebe Rebozo would be made public through Irving's book, the White House got very nervous. The film strongly implies this concern was a direct motivation for the Watergate break-in. As regular readers remember, this is my theory as well re the original reason for the break-in (but see my long article on Gerald Ford, Watergate, and the CIA for the reason why I think the break-in itself was sabotaged)...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=209x6350


http://journals.democraticunderground.com/MinM/25

[KSinTX]

14. Bookmarked for future reading. nt

[Doctor_J]

11. Hopefully Dean will sue Pox News out of existence.

[yellowcanine]

12. Gordo Liddy has been alleging this for years. All with zero evidence of course.

[Barb in Atl]

13. This is the best they could do?

How long has John Dean been burning the Bush administration up? And the best they could come up with is a book by a Faux "journalist" alleging Dean ordered the break in?

Yeah, that'll work.

My guess, Dean will be on Countdown 3 times this week smacking the notion down with Keith's help.