when they considered murdering Jack Anderson

[donsu]

http://atrios.blogspot.com/2004_08_01_atrios_archive.html#109140321259289807

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From yesterday's weekend All Things Considered, about journalist Jack Anderson:


Mr. FELDSTEIN: Well, it's pretty wild, but it's true. The CIA started spying on Anderson under Nixon which was illegal, and Anderson found out about it and he sicced his nine kids--he's a devote Mormon and has nine children--on the CIA agents and they waved and let the air out of the tires of the agents and made sport of it all. So everything Nixon tried, you know, didn't seem to work and finally he turned to smearing him sexually and an assassination plot.

NAYLOR: Now what did the assassination plot involve? I mean, was this something that Nixon was directly involved with?

Mr. FELDSTEIN: We don't know. Here's what we do know--and it's been really interesting. I've been going through the National Archives documents on this and the White House tapes. We do know that E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy, two names that would become famous a few weeks later during the Watergate break-in when they were arrested as part of that, secretly met at The Hay-Adams Hotel in March of 1972, a block from the White House, and they discussed rubbing out Jack Anderson, and they discussed various ways they were going to kill him. First, they talked about putting LSD in his drink. The trouble was as Mormon and a teetotaler, he didn't drink alcohol. So that was out. So then they talked about making him crash in an automobile accident, but they would have to go to the CIA and use a special car for that. So finally G. Gordon Liddy volunteered to kill Anderson himself personally by knifing him, slitting his throat, and staging it as a mugging that would look like a Washington street crime. At the last minute, this assassination plot was aborted, and a few weeks later, the men were arrested in the Watergate break-in and never had a chance to put their plan into operation.

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[olddem43]

1. It's amazing that thugs like Liddy can go on to become

RW icons. The Repugs must be so proud of him.

[tom_paine]

2. The men who considered murdering Anderson were paragons of decency

next to the murderous cabal we have in now.

I have no doubt their Liddy-Murder count is quite high (of course, some other Bushevik Spook did it) and the Anthrax Assassin simply REEKS of a Bushevik Liddy-Type.

(well, that and the purposefully tanked investigation suggesting the Imperial controlling the investigation already KNEW who it was)

[The Backlash Cometh]

3. Hmmm.... I know someone who was one degree away from

Andersen and who died in a car wreck. Hmmm...