Conspiracy Watch: Teddygate
News: Was Hillary Clinton a twentysomething Machiavelli? A former Nixon staffer peddles the secret plot to make Ted Kennedy president.
June 17, 2008
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the conspiracy: Most Americans mistakenly think that Watergate is synonymous with President Richard Nixon's abuse of presidential power. But the real scandal wasn't a Republican White House run amok. Rather, the true outrage was a Democratic Congress that used an investigative witch-hunt to cover up its nefarious effort to install Senator Ted Kennedy in the Oval Office. Among the "Camelot conspirators": Hillary Rodham, a suspiciously powerful and sneaky Watergate investigation staffer fresh out of law school.
the conspiracy theorists: Geoff Shepard, a former Nixon White House official with a 35-year-old chip on his shoulder and a new book to peddle, The Secret Plot to Make Ted Kennedy President. The Watergate-as-Kennedy-steppingstone idea has also been floated by Jerry Zeifman, former chief counsel to the House Judiciary Committee, who claims that Rodham and other Democrats sought to drag out the scandal to "enhance the prospect of Senator Kennedy or another liberal Democrat being elected president in 1976."
meanwhile, back on earth: Who cares, and why now? This new spin on Watergate sounds like a nonstarter. But never underestimate the potential for conservative radio and blogs to run with a wacky theory, especially one that discredits congressional inquiries into Republican high crimes and misdemeanors, and—even better—casts Hillary Clinton as a twentysomething Machiavelli and takes down Barack Obama's biggest senatorial supporter.
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(1=maybe they're on to something, 5=break out the tinfoil hat!)
Illustration: Peter Hoey
Maybe five irrelevents makes more sense?
How does this effect John Kerry?
HRC is no Obama supporter in action - her words have been nice but we have yet to see much beyond stroking her ginormous ego.
I have no idea what you're trying to say. It makes NO sense to me.
The HRC as birdcage lining does though.
okay, then...
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And what about us? Why is it that it's okay for us to have nuclear weapons--the only people who have actually used them, on one country, twice! What gives us the right to decide who gets to defend themselves? If anyone tried that with us, or tried to put bases on our lands, we wouldn't stand for it! Why do we expect others to be happy with the situation?
We're a big bully, and eventually the neighborhood will gang up on us to teach us a lesson. The world hates us because we're like a corrupt cop policing the world, lately. Once, this nation was truly great..it was a beacon of light. I'm afraid the same scenario that plays out in the new Star Wars movies has happened to us. They got this from a Nazi: "To get people to do what you want, just tell them they are being constantly attacked by an ever-prevasive enemy, and denounce any peacemakers as being unpatriotic."
That was from one of Hitler's top Nazis..either Himmler or Goering, I believe.
And all along it was Hillary trying to help Teddy? Give me a break!
Nixon was a Crook...he got caught...he was impeached and he resigned. Period! Get over it!
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Man, you SURE put your case over-the-top with THAT one!!
He resigned, rather than suffer the public indignity.
www.infoplease.com/spot/impeach.html
Only Andrew Johnson shares that notoriety with Bill Clinton.
Next book will have her at the Grassy Knoll, probably might use her cozy talk about her granpa teaching her to shoot at the cabin on the lake - and who really caused Teddy to lose his control of the car and dive into a river...hmmm?
One thing I am sure the Kenndys did Know, as did the Clintons is that Bush's grand father was not a good man at all and an easy target for dirt dureing both Bush's champaignes.
Prescott Bush really did try to over throw the American government and instal a facsit regime instead - and we only Just learned about in this Bush's 7th year? The records of Prescott's Bush's trial for treason by the congress is fully published and was available for a Brithish BBC reporter to uncover and the Democratic candidates to use - but the fact should have surfaced when Bush Sr was running for VP with Reagan.
Well - it a conspirecy thread, so anyone with UFOs and Alien abductions can join in - right?
Have you considered that it is time to expand your minds, and stop the manipulation? Demand greater ethical standards from your society, and your corporate government. The dumbing down of the masses is quite convenient to a government that stole the elections, and got away with it with impunity. Shortly after Bush junior invaded Iraq, -without even finishing the job in Afghanistan just like his father who in the first invasion of Iraq did not depose Saddam Hussein - to steal the resources of this country, he hired his cronies in lucrative, mercenary contracts. Americans continue to sleep while the mismanagement of their country's resources are being siphoned away, and they continue to accept the most appalling health system, and the exploitation of greedy Corporations that keep the minimum salary at $5.80/h, while the top management is making millions.
Both Bush senior and junior are members of the "Skull & Bones" brotherhood that stands for death, and piracy. They rule the world in secrecy spreading misery, and suffering to suit their pathological inclinations. This is why now there is the nuclear proliferation all over the world, despite the fact that scientists still do not know how to neutralize radioacitivity. They supplement carbon oil and coal energies with another polluting "life killing" energy, and no one raises an eye brow, and questions why is it that Solar, Wind and Geo-Thermal green technologies are not proliferating around the globe? Nikola Tesla had the technology to supply for free all the energy needs of the world but the "robber Baron" J.P. Morgan was disgusted when Tesla mentioned the word "for free";and now the planet is seventy percent polluted, facing global warming, and the war in Iraq. The American people are being robbed,and poisoned right under their noses, and they do not take action to defend their rights. The middle class will soon join the poor class for they are under some kind of severe somnambulism, or perhaps is all that McDonald's irradiated, innutritious food they consume daily, that prevents them to break the hypnotic spell.
Greed and a distorted political view is killing our planet, and humanity. The corporate Executives copycat King Midas, ruthlessly, at the cost of life on planet Earth, with the only aim of satisfying their own self-importance, and the demands of usurious shareholders. Wall Street belongs in the past together with capitalism, and no longer is viable in a planet that is facing monumental natural challenges. These great challenges have to be met, if we are to survive in a globe with six and half billion people with wasteful lifestyles, and little consideration towards natural resources.
LARRY O'BRIAN WHO WAS AN ADVISOR OF JFK AFTER LEAVING OFFICE HE BECAME HOWERD HUGHIES ATTORNEY AND HE BECAME DNC CHAIRMAN. THERE WERE A GROUP CALLED 5411 THAT WAS FORMED AND RAN BY RICHARD M NIXON; IN THIS GROUP HOWAR HUGHIES WAS ONE OF THE MEMBER. AT THAT TIME IN 1972 MR.HUGHIES WAS ILL LIVING OUTSIDE OF THE USA. THE 5411 GROUP AT THAT TIME WERE WHO IS WHO IN THE USA. THEY OWNED OR SHARED ETC...
THE REST IS HISTORY!!!
WATERGATE BREAK-IN WAS LOOKING FOR DOCUMENTS IN CASE HOWARD HUGHIES SHARED WITH LARRY O'BRIAN; NIXON WAS AFRAID HE WILL BE EXPOSED ABOUT JFK ASSINATION.
NIXON WAS IN DALLAS,TX ON NOV 22, 1963. AS THE PRESIDENT GETTING KILLED HE WAS ON THE WAY TO THE DALLAS/FT AIRPORT.
THEY SAY HE WAS THERE FOR SOME ASSOSIATION MEETING. IN MY HEART I DON'T THINK SO.
HERE IS FOR YOU TO FIND OUT
Thanks, Legible. In that one comment you illustrated why middle-class democrats have so much trouble relating to blue-collar democrats. As a janitor and a liberal democrat, I am disgusted by your spoiled snobbery. As someone who is old enough to remember the 1970's, I am aware that many people would have done anything to bring down tricky Dick, the worst president before W. And bitter experience has taught me that Mr. squeaky clean Obama is in it just as deep as any other politician. You idealistic kids will be faced with that ugly truth someday. For now, paddle around in your privileged denial. The rest of us have to live - and clean toilets in - the real world.
Also, a link or two on the subject (prefferably from a more reliable source than Wicapedia) would be greatly appriciated.
That is, she was in a perfect position to report on the doings of that law firm. This was during the height of government anti-war, anti-progressive spying. The FBI's COINTELPRO was run by a young Warren Christopher back then, who turned up as Bill Clinton's Secretary of State years later. H. Clinton, on the Dems' Watergate legal team, would have again been in position to observe and report to anyone interested in what was known by the Dems and what their plans were.
Who would want to know about developments in the Watergate prosecution? Well, how about the folks who left the flaming bag of poo on Nixon's doorstep?
Everyone in the burglary team was CIA-connected. Alexander Butterfield was a "former" CIA employee. When you see who leaked what and at what time it becomes clear that the Agency had more than a rooting interest in the outcome.
We have found out that Deep Throat was an FBI bigwig, Mark Felt. If you read Woodward's story on his first meeting with Felt you may have noted that Woodward was a courier from the Pentagon to the White House, carrying top-secret information. He was actually working for the Office of Naval Intelligence, with top-secret clearance. (His editor, Ben Bradlee, worked out of the CIA's Paris office in the early fifties on a propaganda campaign to smear the Rosenbergs.) Funny how during the decades of searching for Deep Throat no one took into account Woodward's employment history.
Clinton's misbehavior during Watergate may have been more than an eruption of some character disorder. It may have been an assignment.
When one considers that much of the cocaine from the 80s Iran-contra experienced rained down on a corner of Arkansas when Bill Clinton was governor (and later-to-be Drug Czar Asa Hutchinson was the federal prosecutor), one begins wondering how connected the Clintons have been to our intelligence agencies.
If instead of accepting the Right's interpretation of the Clintons as radical left-wingers (which is easily dismissed if viewing the legislative accomplishments during Bill Clinton's two terms as President), it appears that the Clintons have been insiders, good soldiers for reactionaries running this country. Maybe in their earlier days they already were on their career path.
[Note that no Kennedys were harmed in the making of this post.]
The real tendentious stuff is the re-presentation of Watergate as a comedy of manners.