John Dean Named Responsible For Watergate Break-In In A New Book

[FVZA_Colonel]

Source: Reuters

New Watergate book says John Dean ordered break-in
By Steve Holland

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - 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."

The biography is being released this week about Nixon's attorney general, a central Watergate figure.

Dean called Rosen's assertion "pathetic."

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080519/pl_nm/usa_watergate_dc

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WTF? Didn't G. Gordon Liddy and some right-wing hack already try this in the early 90's and fail spectacuarly?

[calimary]

1. Oh, naturally. From a Pox Noise operative.

Gee, there wouldn't be some agenda here or anything, would there?

:eyes: :sarcasm:

[dchill]

2. Another right-wing hit job. Fox News Channel is mad...

at Dean for his integrity and his multiple appearances on "Countdown with Keith Olbermann."

[Vogon_Glory]

22. And Also Mad About Dean's Books

I suspect that the press-titutes at Faux Noise are also upset about John Dean's books concerning present-day "conservatism" like Worse than Watergate and Conservatives Without Conscience. I'm pleased to see that John Dean has made it to the level of "threat" to the Republican Party and its propaganda organs. Maybe Dean's books are having some success at pealing away voters who once had happy thoughts about Ford and Reagan and continued to vote GOP out of habit despite their increasing disenchantment with what the Republican Party is actually doing.

[merwin]

3. Completely pathetic

[hfojvt]

4. a Fox News correspondent

It could not possibly be the Right Wing Noise Machine trying to discredit a critic of Bush?

Nah, those fair and balanced bastions of unbiased search for the truth would never do such a thing.

[orleans]

5. just google "john dean" and "impeach"

they (right wing) must fucking HATE him.

as for james rosen? what a loser.

[pnorman]

6. "James Rosen"?? Never heard of him until now. (I don't doTV).

But here's one Google hit: http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/fox_news_takes_vonneguts_bait.php

He's entitled to his "opinions", but he comes across there as a small-minded mean-spirited hatchet-man. Feh!

pnorman

[annabanana]

7. That's pretty damn funny

His "exhaustive review" must have been really really tiring. It's not easy to lie that big you know...

[no_hypocrisy]

8. Let me get this straight. Rosen alleges the same man who told Nixon "There's a cancer growing

on the presidency" ordered the break-in that caused the cancer.

Sounds like FOX version of logic or lack thereof.

[lisa58]

9. Dean sued Liddy over this years ago...

...wonder if he'll file any legal action against Rosen.

[pacalo]

24. What a great idea -- let's get the facts out in the open in a legal contest.

[SpiralHawk]

10. Fox News - Bwa ha ha ha ha - what a pathetic joke they are

Sorry, only kooaid guzzling wingnuts will believe this catapult full of crap.

[Ian David]

11. "James Rosen, a Fox News Channel correspondent in Washington, made the charge..."

That's enough for me to know it's bullshit.

[trof]

12. Yep, that's as far as I had to read.

[ToughLuck]

13. Pathetic is exactly right, keep destroying the man, that is what the Republicans do best.

[Virginia Dare]

14. GMAFB!...more FOX revisionist history....n/t

[Javaman]

15. more revisionist history from the party of hacks. nt

[Canuckistanian]

16. As soon as I saw this, I could smell the BS

Then, when I saw the word "Fox", I knew immediately what the purpose of this story was.

[SlingBlade]

17. Reason Number 1501 as to why

FoxNews Sucks !

[Botany]

18. As noted by the O.P. Gordon Liddy has been selling this lie for years.

John Dean no more ordered the break in than did my labrador retriever.

[Phred42]

19. I beleive that if Dean had ordered the Breakin - He would have fessed up by now.

Dean has done a lot of Damage to the Reich over the years. They 'need' to discredit him.
This is the predictable Reich personal attack machine, I'm just surprised it took them this long to try it.

[gratuitous]

20. If Dean had ordered the break-in

I'd say that someone somewhere along the line would have mentioned it in the last 35 years. Especially the persons who went to jail, who one would suspect had a compelling motive for pointing the finger at anyone else. "Hack" doesn't begin to describe this sort of garbage; "libel," however, might just capture the essence of it.

[Phred42]

25. Agree!

[leftchick]

21. John Dean's reply is worth reading

the rest isn't....

<snip>

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.

[pacalo]

23. Thank you. I remember that Nixon & his cabal wanted to pin Watergate on Dean.

Dean wasn't the legal insider; his boss John Mitchell, the attorney general, was in the thick of it.