01-05-2014, 01:35 PM
Drew Phipps Wrote:If you know all about it, maybe you can explain it to me in words of one syllable. How is it that the CIA is planning to take Nixon down if he didn't authorize the burglary initially? How are Hunt and Sturgis planning to extort money from Nixon, by succeeding and finding out dirt on Nixon's political opponents? Failing that, what would be their reasoning about how deliberately getting caught would make extorting money from Nixon any easier? Is McCord trying to save the President the embarrasment of getting blackmailed, by embarrassing him with the burglary? (I know Hunt hit Nixon up for money AFTER they got caught, but no one, not even Hunt, ever claimed that going along with this scheme was actually planned as a way to extort money from the President.)
Wow you read Y/C? I am impressed.
Another good book that goes into great detail on Watergate is Russ Baker's Family of Secrets.
I will try to reply more fully after court, later today.
Dawn