Douglas Caddy

A Second Look at the Steele Dossier https://www.justsecurity.org/44697/steele-dossier-knowing/?fbclid=IwAR2LOfP5TEbJGkM_EIIxxVKkQ2WtNAotOCQv2OFnm0d5Zl0sBfDjjMzjQ3M

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/09/opinion/supreme-court-census-trump.html

Thank you, Paul, for your enlightening and perceptive commentary prompted by Phil Nelson's article. You are a natural born writer, a rare talent that the reader recognizes immediately.

5 Takeaways From 10 Years of Trump Tax Figures https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/07/us/trump-tax-figures.html

How Robert Caro Missed LBJ’s End Run Around JFK’s Rejection of his Power Grab over National Security https://www.lewrockwell.com/2019/05/phillip-f-nelson/how-lyndon-johnson-expropriated-control-over-the-pentagon-and-cia-soon-after-the-inauguration-of-the-kennedy-johnson-administration/

Trump Asserts Executive Privilege Over Full Mueller Report https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/08/us/politics/congress-contempt-barr.html

The New York Times article on Trump's tax debacle: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/05/07/us/politics/donald-trump-taxes.html

Hundreds of ex-federal prosecutors claim evidence shows Trump is guilty of obstruction of justice. https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-would-have-been-charged-with-obstruction-were-he-not-president-hundreds-of-former-federal-prosecutors-assert/2019/05/06/e4946a1a-7006-11e9-9f06-5fc2ee80027a_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_obstruction-120pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans&utm_term=.41d3da385ce4

Guide to claims that Trump's presidential campaign was spied upon: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/05/06/whats-evidence-spying-trumps-campaign-heres-your-guide/?hpid=hp_hp-more-top-stories_fact-check-spying-523am%3Ahomepage%2Fstory-ans&utm_term=.cc0921d21069

The Oval Office tapes are revealing in many ways. For example, my law firm assigned me in April 1972 to work with the Lawyers Committee for the Re-election of the President. Accordingly I reported to John Dean in his office in the White House. After Watergate broke the Tapes reveal that Dean kept knowledge of my working relationship with him from President Nixon. This is shown in a Tape conversation between Nixon and Ehrlichman about me on July 19, 1972.. Dean kept our working relationship secret because he was the "Mastermind" of the cover-up and he did not want Nixon to know in the early days of Watergate that I had turned down the "hush money" offered to me by Ulasewicz upon orders from Dean and Kalmbach. Dean did not want Nixon to know how close the scandal was to the White House. Eighteen months passed before Nixon, Haldeman and Ehrlichman realized that Dean to protect himself was keeping key information from them. Dean wove a spider's web to entrap and incriminate Nixon during those months. When the cover-up broke Dean was the first to run to the prosecutors to tell what he knew.

I walked that towpath many times when I was a student at Georgetown University from 1956-1960. Mary Meyer was killed in 1964. From the film the towpath looked the same as when I walked it. It was easily accessible from the Georgetown section of Washington and especially from the campus of the university. To get to the towpath from the campus one had to first go down a step series of stone steps made famous from a scene in the movie, The Exorcist. In those days Georgetown was an extremely safe place to live. I never once sensed any danger.

Trump Objects to Mueller Testifying Before Congress https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/05/us/politics/trump-mueller-testimony.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Barr can run but he cannot hide. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/05/13/trump-barr-and-the-rule-of-law?fbclid=IwAR2K0NbvGYaaLTFhNC-j4VJL7GJw8zLnEEYeYy_y5pFUyL3K5kP_B_QT3Ns https://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/work-around-doj-prosecute-barrr/17764/?fbclid=IwAR0CbnX-VOcjzW4sqSOSvHvwU2a4meAHhgIZKwWpZqDG494dDTrhHarMh10

A Spy by Any Name A few questions about the F.B.I.'s don't-call-it-spying on the Trump campaign. From the column: Back in the golden age of presidential conduct, before Donald Trump wrecked every norm and smashed every guardrail, someone — either in Lyndon Johnson’s White House or in Langley, accounts differ — decided to have the C.I.A. spy on Barry Goldwater’s presidential campaign. The agent assigned to lead that illegal operation, in one of history’s winks, was E. Howard Hunt, who would later conduct campaign spying in a private capacity for Richard Nixon’s re-election. Hunt had subordinates volunteer for the Goldwater campaign and obtain advance copies of speeches and position papers, which were dutifully passed to the Johnson White House, which relied on them to pre-empt and befuddle Goldwater. Hunt and others would later suggest that Johnson welcomed the intel because he needed a blowout win in 1964 to establish his own legitimacy. This is entirely plausible, but it’s also reasonable to connect the spycraft to the larger climate of the ’64 election, in which the entire political establishment treated Goldwater as a unique threat to the norms of postwar politics, a dangerous man likely to bring fascism to America or to lead the United States into thermonuclear war. It’s a lot easier to justify the abuse of counterintelligence powers when you’re convinced that the abnormal nature of a presidential candidacy demands it. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/04/opinion/sunday/trump-2016-investigation.html [Note: So it turns out that the CIA used Howard Hunt to help assure the 1964 election of LBJ who managed the cover-up of the CIA's orchestration of the assassination of JFK. Decades later Hunt in his deathbed confession would name LBJ as being at the top of the pyramid of the conspiracy to kill JFK.] Edited 2 hours ago by Douglas Caddy

Mueller to testify on May 15th. https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-mueller-report-testimony-house-tentative-date-20190505-story.html

David, you opened up an important part of Watergate in posing this question, a part that has never been explored by the Washington Post which has treated John Dean as its darling since the case broke. Dean was heavily involved socially with the mob in Washington headed by Joseph Nesline through Maureen Biner who later became his wife when they married after Watergate broke to secure the marital legal privilege against having to testify against one's spouse. Maureen had been the roommate of Heidi Rikan, the madame who ran the mob's prostitution ring out of the DNC. Rikan was a bridesmaid at their wedding. Dean and Maureen were seen frequently at a mob owned restaurant in Washington. For further information see: https://www.amazon.com/White-House-Call-Girl-Watergate-ebook/dp/B00E257UFM/ref=dp_kinw_strp_1

Fair Play Is No Match for Foul After getting dissed by Barr, will Mueller man up? From the article: And finally, we have the unfortunate Robert Mueller, who took a tortuous route to decide not to decide on obstruction of justice. Like Comey, Mueller believed in his own purity so much that he was blinded to his naïveté. Barr helped the White House by outmaneuvering the mute special counsel in shaping the narrative about “my baby,’’ as the attorney general called Mueller’s report. Barr ground his wingtip into Mueller’s throat on Wednesday during his Senate testimony. He spoke of Mueller dismissively, like an errant errand boy who threw a silly snit after failing to complete the task he was given. Mueller’s trust in Barr led him to miss the moment when Trump gobbled up the attorney general’s soul like a midnight snack — in one bite. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/04/opinion/sunday/mueller-barr-dowd.html

A Spy by Any Name A few questions about the F.B.I.'s don't-call-it-spying on the Trump campaign. From the column: Back in the golden age of presidential conduct, before Donald Trump wrecked every norm and smashed every guardrail, someone — either in Lyndon Johnson’s White House or in Langley, accounts differ — decided to have the C.I.A. spy on Barry Goldwater’s presidential campaign. The agent assigned to lead that illegal operation, in one of history’s winks, was E. Howard Hunt, who would later conduct campaign spying in a private capacity for Richard Nixon’s re-election. Hunt had subordinates volunteer for the Goldwater campaign and obtain advance copies of speeches and position papers, which were dutifully passed to the Johnson White House, which relied on them to pre-empt and befuddle Goldwater. Hunt and others would later suggest that Johnson welcomed the intel because he needed a blowout win in 1964 to establish his own legitimacy. This is entirely plausible, but it’s also reasonable to connect the spycraft to the larger climate of the ’64 election, in which the entire political establishment treated Goldwater as a unique threat to the norms of postwar politics, a dangerous man likely to bring fascism to America or to lead the United States into thermonuclear war. It’s a lot easier to justify the abuse of counterintelligence powers when you’re convinced that the abnormal nature of a presidential candidacy demands it. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/04/opinion/sunday/trump-2016-investigation.html [Note: So it turns out that the CIA used Howard Hunt to help assure the 1964 election of LBJ who managed the cover-up of the CIA's orchestration of the assassination of JFK. Decades later Hunt in his deathbed confession would name LBJ as being at the top of the pyramid of the conspiracy to kill JFK.]

David Talbot wrote on Facebook today: The New York Times's coverage of the ongoing political crisis in Venezuela -- which is hugely exacerbated by aggressive U.S. interference in that country's internal affairs -- contains all-too- familiar echoes of the newspaper's coverage of past U.S.-orchestrated coups. As I wrote in my book "The Devil's Chessboard" -- about notorious CIA spymaster Allen Dulles-- the Times functioned as a propaganda arm for the CIA during the infamous, Cold War-era U.S. coups that toppled democratically elected governments in Iran, Guatemala and the Congo. This photo of President Kennedy captures the moment in 1961 when he was told that Congolese President Patrice Lumumba -- the great young hope of a rising, post-colonial Africa -- had been brutally assassinated by CIA-paid thugs. The hugely popular Lumumba -- who was leading his country out of the misery and depravity of Belgian rule -- antagonized the huge Western mining interests that he was threatening to nationalize, as well as these mining corporations' protectors, such as CIA director Dulles and his brother, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. Before taking over foreign policy in the Eisenhower administration, this deadly fraternal duo's Wall Street law firm represented these mining giants. So when Lumumba tried to reclaim his nation's resources for his impoverished people, the Dulles brothers quickly began framing him as a dangerous Communist. Lumumba wasn't -- he was in reality a dedicated Congolese patriot who was trying to lead his country on an independent path between the two Cold War super powers. But the Dulles brothers would not allow such Third World independence. And their smear campaign of Lumumba was greatly aided by the CIA's friends and assets in the U.S. press -- especially the New York Times. During a critical moment in the Congo crisis -- when Lumumba's rule was under strong pressure from U.S.-backed military plotters -- the New York Times dispatched a foreign correspondent named Paul Hofmann to report on the dramatic events. It turned out that the Austrian-born Hofmann had a strange background: a former aide to a Nazi war criminal, he had been recruited into the U.S. spy service, and later was placed in the Times's Rome bureau by CIA counterintelligence wizard James Jesus Angleton. Hofmann's barrage of negative reporting about Lumumba for the NY Times was filled with disinformation, hysteria, and overt racism -- it was clearly designed to set the stage for the eventual overthrow, and assassination, of Lumumba. The CIA carried out its brutal plan with the Times's assistance (Allen Dulles was very chummy with the newspaper's top editors). But the spy agency kept President Kennedy in the dark -- because Allen Dulles knew that JFK supported African nationalism, and in particular, Lumumba. Kennedy took the news of his violent death very hard -- as captured here by White House photographer Jacques Lowe. Of course the Times's coverage of the current crisis in Venezuela is not as inflammatory as it was during past coups like the one in the Congo. But the newspaper's reporting is still heavily slanted against the Maduro government. Articles in the Times consistently report about Venezuela's "economic shambles," without emphasizing the major role that U.S.-imposed sanctions have played in wreaking this economic havoc. Maudro and his widely popular socialist predecessor Hugo Chavez are consistently referred to in the most pejorative terms. (Today, the Times calls the late Chavez, who rode to office on a landslide of votes from the poor and desperate, as a "notoriously charismatic leader." Why "notoriously?") Much of the Times's reporting about Venezuela is based on vague "intelligence sources" -- either U.S. agencies, disaffected Venezuela spooks aligned with the U.S., or Israeli security alarmed by the alleged alliance between Maduro's government and Hamas. The newspaper does not deeply report why Chavez and Maduro were democratically elected -- and why their social reform programs were greeted with joyous relief by the poor and disenfranchised. The Maduro regime clearly has an authoritarian bent. But so does our own current presidency. And Trump is cuddling up with world leaders much more dictatorial and pathological than Maduro. The main crimes of the Venezuela government, in strongman Trump's eyes, are that it declares itself socialist, maintains closer ties to Havana than Washington -- and, most important, it controls the world's greatest oil reserves. But by focusing relentlessly on Maduro's human rights violations, the NY Times gives cover to the Trump administration's naked efforts to illegally overthrow the Venezuelan government. The newspaper's anti-Maduro editorial barrage paves the way for his demise -- and if and when the coup occurs, the Times will no doubt cheer his overthrow as a a blow for freedom, instead of the cynical, Trump-produced power grab that it will be. As the Times well knows, Trump doesn't give a flying xxxx about human rights. And neither do the wealthy Venezuela elites who are poised to sweep back into power. Here's some more about the NY Times's shameful collusion with the CIA in the 1961 overthrow and assassination of President Patrice Lumumba of the Congo, from my book, "The Devil's Chessboard." To this day, the Times has not acknowledged its role in these tragic events, much less apologized for its actions. Nor has the Times revealed the Nazi background of its foreign correspondent Paul Hofmann or his ties to U.S. intelligence. The Times didn't even have the courage to review my book. "The raging battle over Lumumba's future broke into the U.S. press, with the CIA's media assets predicting drastic consequences if the Congolese leader returned to power. As the Congo crisis reached its climax, a new correspondent for the New York Times showed up in (the nation's capital) Leopoldville with a distinctly anti-Lumumba bias. Paul Hofmann was a diminutive, sophisticated Austrian with a colorful past. During World War II, he served in Rome as a top aide to the notorious Nazi general Kurt Malzer, who was later convicted of the mass murder of Italian partisans. At some point, Hofmann became an informer for the Allies, and after the war he became closely associated with (U.S. counterintelligence chief) Jim Angleton. The Angleton familty helped place Hofmann in the Rome bureau of the New York Times, where he continued to be of use to his friends in U.S. intelligence...Hofmann became one of the Times's leading foreign correspondents, eventually taking over the newspaper'sRome bureau and parachuting from time to time into international hot spots like the Congo. "The New York Times's coverage of the Congo crisis had always been slanted against Lumumba, with columns and commentaries labeling him "inexperienced and irresponsible" and a "virtual dictator." But Hofmann's Congo coverage was so virulent in its bias that it seemed as if he were acting as a "psywar" conduit for the CIA. In article after article during the critical Congo end game, Hofmann portrayed Lumumba as a dangerous bogeyman, a "wily" conspirator in some pieces and a mentally unbalanced buffoon in others ("the weirdest character in a sort of 'Alice in Tropical Wonderland,' as the Times man wrote). Even behind bars, Lumumba continued to work his dark magic, Hofmann told his readers, plotting the murders of whites and bringing a flow of Soviet arms into the country, all while living the life of luxury in military prison "with three houseboys at his service." The message behind Hofmann's relentless barrage was clear: despite the "crocodile tears" cried by the Soviet Union over Lumumba's plight, no man as treacherous as this deserved mercy." Shortly thereafter, Lumumba, while in custody, was savagely tortured and beaten to death by thugs on the CIA payroll. -- From "The Devil's Chessboard," p. 383-4 About this website google.com Image: Jacques Lowe: the JFK photographer who lost his life's work on 9 ... Found on Google from theguardian.com

Here is Pelosi's viewpoint on this as of today: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/04/us/politics/nancy-pelosi.html

The Coming Subpoena Fights Between Trump and Congress, Explained https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/02/us/politics/subpoenas-trump-congress.html

When I joined the Education Forum in 2006, an unknown member posted a profile photo of me before I had a chance to do so. I never changed it although I felt it hardly resembled me. So here is a photo of me taken on April 5, 2019, just after I turned 81 years old. I am joined in the photo by Facebook friend Jason Reese of Washington, D.C., who is knowledgeable on both Watergate and the JFK assassination, and who kindly stopped by in Houston to visit me after attending a ceremony at the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library at Texas A&M University in Collage Station at which a new U.S. Postal Service stamp of George H. W. Bush was unveiled.

The U.S. Supreme Court in Jurney v. MacCracken created the precedent under which Attorney General Barr can be held in contempt of Congress and arrested for failure to deliver to Congress the full and unredacted Mueller Report. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurney_v._MacCracken

The Battle of the Letters, 1963: John F. Kennedy, David Ben-Gurion, Levi Eshkol, and the U.S. Inspections of Dimona https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/nuclear-vault/2019-05-02/battle-letters-1963-john-f-kennedy-david-ben-gurion-levi-eshkol-us-inspections-dimona