Douglas Caddy

The New York Times obituary of Watergate attorney William Bittman contains an error of omission. https://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/03/us/william-bittman-69-won-hoffa-conviction.html The obituary fails to note that William Bittman was an unindicted co-conspirator in the Watergate coverup. He took the “hush” money from Anthony Ulasewicz after I turned it down. Strangely, there is another Times article that notes that Bittman was an unindicted co-conspirator. https://www.nytimes.com/1974/06/22/archives/prosecutor-reported-to-find-26-in-coverup-plot-others-reportedly.html From the article: Other persons on the Jaworski list, the sources said, were Frederick C. LaRue, a former White House and campaign aide, who has pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice; Paul L. O'Brien, attorney for the re‐election committee; William 0. Bittman, attorney for one of the original defendants; John J. Caulfield, an investigator for the campaign committee, and Anthony T. Ulasewicz, who worked for Mr. Caulfield

This Guardian article repeats the same error found in the original New York Times article that said McCord and the four Cuban-Americans pleaded guilty at the first Watergate trial. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/28/james-mccord-obituary?CMP=share_btn_fb&fbclid=IwAR22XAYIBTz8YV0TqTwpFoXcE1pPJdm9H436FBpZkde-GrGSi_fIYvbTOOg Here is my letter to the editor of the Times calling attention to the error in their original obituary article on McCord. It took a week for the Times to correct its original article after I provided it what actually transpired. The Times did not correct its error about when Hunt and Liddy were arrested. Three months after the break-in is not "soon." Doug <> To: letters <letters@nytimes.com> Date: Sat, Apr 20, 2019 3:49 pm The obituary inaccurately states: "But in January 1973, Mr. McCord and the burglars pleaded guilty, and Mr. Hunt and Mr. Liddy were convicted in a federal trial, all seven on charges of burglary, wiretapping and conspiracy." I testified as a (voluntary) witness for the defense and an (involuntary) witness for the prosecution at this first Watergate trial, having been retained by Howard Hunt and Gordon Liddy as the original attorney for the Watergate seven a few hours after the arrests of McCord and the four Cuban-American burglars at Watergate. Hunt and the four Cuban-Americans pleaded guilty at the start of the trial. Hunt's wife, Dorothy, had been killed in a plane crash in Chicago the month before. Hunt was a broken man and feared one or more of his four children would be killed next if he did not plead guilty. McCord and Liddy stood trial and were found guilty. The article also states that "E. Howard Hunt, a former C.I.A. agent, and G. Gordon Liddy, the re-election committee’s general counsel, who ran the break-in from a nearby hotel room, fled but were soon arrested." My memory is that although the five burglars were arrested on June 17, 1972, Hunt and Liddy who fled the scene remained free from arrest until they were indicted along with the five arrested burglars in September, three months later. Some persons at the time accused the three prosecutors of delaying the indictment until September so that the trial of the seven defendants would take place after the November presidential election. I personally believe the indictment was delayed for this reason. Douglas Caddy Houston, Texas

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Bio of the late great journalist, Bob Parry, who died this past January. https://www.bing.com/search?q=robert+parry+biography&qs=AS&pq=robert+parry&sk=AS3SC1&sc=8-12&cvid=56A6A311B98341A69A60F0574879ABE6&FORM=QBRE&sp=5

John Newman posted this on Facebook today: As promised this is a sneak preview from Volume IV--"Armageddon"--about a moment of high drama for Colonel Howard Burris in March 1962: An Episode of High Drama in Burris’ Subterranean Prowling in March 1962: The showdown between Lemnitzer and JFK over U.S. ... intervention in Cuba took place during four crucial days in mid-March 1962. On 13 March Lemnitzer, forced by the Kennedy brothers' knee-capping of Lansdale a few days earlier, sent his Northwoods invasion plans to Kennedy. On 16 March, in front a dozen senior officers from the White House, Pentagon and State Department, Lansdale was on hand to watch and record the face-to-face showdown between the president and the chairman of the JCS. At this crucial inflection point of history, Lemnitzer could not afford for the president to know the truth about Vietnam, where he was also pressing JFK to intervene. During those same four days in March 1962, Colonel Burris (LBJ's putative "aide") was in discussions with the Joint Chiefs’ staff and General Taylor’s office about the failing war effort in Vietnam. Burris told me that they all knew that McNamara was not being told the truth about Vietnam. On 16 March—the very day of the Kennedy-Lemnitzer faceoff over invading Cuba—Burris told Vice President Johnson in a memo that the chiefs knew the truth about the failing war effort in Vietnam. Four days later Burris scrawled this dark note at the bottom of that memo: “This same question of ‘where are we in Vietnam’ still disturbs Mr. McNamara. He is leaving today, 20 March, for meetings in Honolulu, where he hopes to obtain some answers.” Of course, all McNamara got from the military was more lies on Vietnam. President Kennedy, however, rebuked Lemnitzer in front of those gathered at the Cuba showdown and sent the JCS chairman packing. See More

Geoff Shepard speaks out about the CNN 4-part series on Nixon https://thefederalist.com/2019/04/22/cnn-shows-zero-interest-questioning-conventional-wisdom-watergate/?fbclid=IwAR217ckMXJL4X0nooiPRfu5BIiy-yrg5pO6aUY0SUoLoQnlg8UCwOGLV4HE#.XL_XODZqLMA.facebook

Note: The above is John Newman's full commentary on Facebook the ends abruptly with "NEXT: WHY WAS THE ONLY RECORD OF THIS EXTRAORDINARY MEETING WRITTEN BY BURRIS? AND HOW DID HE GET ACCESS TO NSC DOCUMENT AND MEETINGS?]"

Note: Jim Jim DiEugenio asked a question about this yesterday] PART I: WHAT THE PRESIDENT DIDN’T SAY WHEN, AT THE 20 JULY 1961 NSC NET EVALUATION SUBCOMMITTE BRIEIFNG, LEMNITZER AND DULLES PRESENTED JFK WITH PLANS FOR A “SURPRISE NUCLEAR ATTACK [AGAINST THE USSR] IN LATE 1963: According to Howard Burris’ memo—the only surviving record of what happened at the meeting—"The president directed that no member in attendance at the meeting disclose even the subject of the meeting....” National Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy described the president’s adverse reaction to the proposed surprise strike: “He expressed his own reaction to Dean Rusk as they walked out of the cabinet room to the Oval Office for a private meeting on other subjects. “And we call ourselves the human race.” The timing of the chiefs’ proposal was not lost on the president. Kennedy was facing Soviet ultimatums on Berlin at a time when conventional U.S. military forces, by themselves, could not prevent the loss of West Berlin to East Germany. All present at the meeting understood that without the American nuclear deterrent, Berlin could not be saved. But the crisis over Berlin wasn’t all that Kennedy had on his mind during that bizarre Net Evaluation presentation. Twice, the president obliquely broached something that those present could not yet have been aware of. Burris’ memo captured what else might have been on Kennedy’s mind: The president asked for an appraisal of the trend in the effectiveness of the attack. General Lemnitzer replied that he would also discuss this [later personally] with the president. Because Kennedy had already been told that the best window of opportunity for such a nuclear attack against the USSR would occur in late 1963, his question about the predicted trend line betrays his interest about a time other than late 1963. And Kennedy’s next comment revealed what that period was: Since the basic assumption of this year’s presentation was an attack in late 1963, the president asked about probable effects in the winter of 1962. Mr. Dulles observed that the attack would be much less effective since there would be considerably fewer missiles involved. Only the president knew what he was thinking about: how would the Cold War landscape look in late 1962? And, with the benefit of hindsight, we now know what the Kennedys had in mind. Their intention—after dealing with the flash points in Berlin, Laos, and Vietnam—was to reactivate the plan to overthrow Castro. The question was: what would Khrushchev be able to do about it? [NEXT: WHY WAS THE ONLY RECORD OF THIS EXTRAORDINARY MEETING WRITTEN BY BURRIS? AND HOW DID HE GET ACCESS TO NSC DOCUMENT AND MEETINGS?] See More

William Kelly wrote on Facebook about the article cited at the top of this thread: Please stop sharing this link as to why the COPA archive - decades of dedicated work was hijacked to rural Pennsylvania instead of being in DC where it belongs. Read John Judge's original work at Dave Ratcliff's Rathouse web site. The HHM in Pa. Is a sham.

Robert Caro’s Blind Spot https://slate.com/culture/2019/04/lyndon-johnson-robert-caro-affairs-misogyny.html

Buckley wrote the book, McCarthy and His Enemies, and undoubtedly consulted with Roy Cohn while writing it. When I was working with Buckley in the early 1960s he spoke of his close friendship with Cohn's law partner whose Irish name escapes me now. https://www.amazon.com/McCarthy-His-Enemies-William-Buckley/dp/0895264722

Is the Larry C. Johnson in the above consortiumnews article this guy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_C._Johnson?fbclid=IwAR1xSBHh5DlCnf4nEv9Ban99-K9zEGAfv2DPv43uEdNrixAQZPVXGJ8CxGw

Joe, this is really interesting information about Lou and Barbara Walters.

Yes, Joe, and the Mueller Report reprints an email to Trump's attorney Michael Cohen from a Russian "businessman" that the bedroom tapes of Trump being compromised in Moscow exist. So our president is being blackmailed by Putin.

PAUL DEBOLE - JFK/RFK ASSASSINATIONS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1iLhP7K_Mk&feature=share

Trump is using Roy Cohn's legal strategies. https://www.axios.com/donald-trump-legal-strategy-subpoenas-investigations-f472ed47-988b-4762-824b-6578dfbedc3f.html [It should be pointed out that Roy Cohn was disbarred from the practice of law towards to the end of his life. But I guess he would say his strategies worked up until then.] https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1986/06/24/roy-cohn-is-disbarred-by-new-york-court/c5ca9112-3245-48f0-ab01-c2c0f3c3fc2e/?utm_term=.c474daa4f784

In a sense Robert Morrow was ahead of his time in being consumed with the sex lives and sexual hypocrisies of politicians. The 2016 election campaign saw Trump on national TV getting off a campaign bus after being recorded about boasting of a recent adultery and other gross sexual matters, such his habit of as grabbing the private parts of women. Then there was his attempt to pay off two women he had sex with, this in the closing days of the campaign so that the voters were kept in the dark. This has resulted in a criminal investigation of the pay-offs. There are many other public scandals involving Trump and his adulterous actions. Morrow's preoccupation with sexual matters pales when contrasted with President Trump's gross sexual exploits.

How a national conspiracy theory museum wound up in the 'boondocks' Mike Argento, York Daily Record Published 1:58 p.m. ET Jan. 16, 2019 | Updated 11:19 a.m. ET Jan. 17, 2019 https://www.ydr.com/story/opinion/columnists/mike-argento/2019/01/16/how-national-hidden-history-museum-wound-up-york-county-pa-conspiracy-theory-museum-john-judge/2582211002/?fbclid=IwAR3t08DWwyqGhdXLFnN7nA9GwoSqIecdmH2Q4uheA2ZbcC0kXLRMO7H_peQ

What a revelation: https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/news/foia/2019-04-22/reading-barrs-redactions-muellers-report

Your question raises basic issues about what was behind the arrests at Watergate. At the request of S. T. Patrick I am writing a piece about this for an upcoming issue of "garrison." I shall answer your question in my article and believe it will be an eye-opener. It is way too complicated to answer here now.

MWN Episode 116 – A Weekend in Olney (2019 JFK Historical Group Recap) https://midnightwriternews.com/mwn-episode-116-a-weekend-in-olney-2019-jfk-historical-group-recap/?fbclid=IwAR1i0TsAIvFfEXhmVQyOs9Th6YeuzSuvETh3tyF_tArIoCCTXfIpY8n5BGY

The New York Times cannot get enough of Robert Caro. It has told us what a great man he is on the same topic three times now in less than two weeks: 11 days ago online; https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/09/books/review-working-robert-caro.html 5 days ago online: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/16/books/review/robert-a-caro-working.html Today in the front page book review of the Times Book Review section.

The Mueller Report makes clear that President Trump can be indicted and tried in a criminal trial should he run again in 2020 and be defeated or alternatively choose not to run again and leave office in January 2021. The statute of limitation for some of his crimes does not expire until July 2022, leaving plenty of time to indict. This topic will emerge as major issue in coming months.

Joe: I think Hunt's confession about the Kennedy assassination was genuine but that it was way too limited in what he could have told. As for Watergate, which came nine years later, here is a short segment of a longer video that reveals much of what we still don't know about that scandal of which Hunt was again a central figure. Both the Kennedy assassination and Watergate remain incomplete historical mysteries. Hunt could have contributed many of the missing pieces but his legacy is that he chose not to do so.

Stephanie: No, I have never been afraid at what I know but maybe I should have been in past times. Right now I am being harassed frequently, including two entries into my residence when I have been away, by thugs stemming from my giving information to Special Counsel Mueller in 2017 about Roger Stone that Mueller undoubtedly explored during his investigation and which may or may not be in the redacted version of the Mueller Report released by AG Barr. The information may also be used by the prosecution when Stone faces his criminal trial in November. Also those who hired the thugs are upset about what I know about the history leading up to the two FISC (court) FISA warrants issued in 2017 that Barr is claiming are part of the "spying" on the Trump campaign. I plan to write about this in the EF in the near future. Mueller Report Likely to Renew Scrutiny of Steele Dossier https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/19/us/politics/steele-dossier-mueller-report.html