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Tucker Carlson made some explosive assertions Friday, suggesting that the CIA and the FBI brought down Richard Nixon because he was on to their efforts to undermine the American system as the Founding Fathers had intended it to run and knew that the CIA was involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Carlson’s segment quickly became wildly controversial, but is it true? We may never know for sure — and that in itself demonstrates yet again the need to demand and enforce complete transparency and accountability from these agencies that all too easily can go rogue.
Carlson said: “Richard Nixon was re-elected in 1972 by the largest margin of the popular vote ever recorded before or since. Nixon got 17 million more votes than his opponent. Less than two years later, he was gone. He was forced to resign and in his place, an obedient servant of the federal agencies called Gerald Ford took over the White House.” Carlson went on to explain that Nixon believed that “elements in the federal bureaucracy were working to undermine the American system of government and had been doing that for a long time. He often said that.” He suggested that CIA and FBI operatives orchestrated both the Watergate break-in and the two-year-long firestorm that brought Nixon down.
According to Carlson, “on June 23, 1972, Nixon met with the then–CIA director, Richard Helms, at the White House. During the conversation, which thankfully was tape-recorded, Nixon suggested he knew ‘who shot John,’ meaning President John F. Kennedy. Nixon further implied that the CIA was directly involved in Kennedy’s assassination, which we now know it was. Helms’s telling response? Total silence, but for Nixon, it didn’t matter because it was already over. Four days before, on June 19, the Washington Post had published the first of many stories about a break-in at the Watergate office building.” This doesn’t add up to the CIA deciding to take out Nixon, since the break-in and the Post story both happened before the president’s conversation with Helms, unless Nixon had enunciated this before the break-in.
And he had. Tucker Carlson actually got the date wrong. The Nixon/Helms conversation didn’t take place on June 23, 1972, but on Oct. 8, 1971 (it’s further mislabeled on this audio file as taking place on Oct. 10, 1971, but the Nixon tape logs set the meeting on the 8th). Nixon said to Helms: “Uh, Who shot John [JFK]? Uh, is Eisenhower to blame? Is Johnson to blame? Is Kennedy to blame? Is Nixon to blame? Etcetera etcetera etcetera. [This] may become, may become, not by me, but may become a very, very, uh, vigorous issue. If it does, uh, I need to know what is necessary to protect our inquiries, the intelligence gathering and the Dirty Tricks Department. And I will protect it. Hey listen, I’ve done more than my share of lying to protect it. I will do it and I believe it’s totally right to do it.”
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ME Infidel says
G. Gordon Liddy contended that the Watergate break in was to grab a folder from the desk of Maxie Wells that contained photos of prostitutes, not to spy on the Democrat’s campaign. Fm over all, see this article:
https://reason.com/2022/06/16/the-weird-world-of-watergate/
Hoi Polloi says
Thanks. That all happened before my time and the article helps clarify my foggy notions of just what happened.
mea says
230124 about jihadwatch.org Watergate article… No ! the whole Nixon Watergate circus was a politi’Kal ‘Klass fraud… it worked perfectly. The marxist indoctrinated toady citizens of America are still mesmerized by the Fraud…. which obfuscation masks an interesting fact – the Biden RICO came into being as a direct consequence of Biden getting into bed with Nixon and his Chinese henchmen; of course, Biden as the confederate tool of the Chinese is actually secondary to the overarching point that it was Nixon and the Chinese, using Biden as filler for their sandwich, that set in motion the Chinese theft of all of America and Europe’s technology.
The Watergate scam was the smoke and mirrors Fraud masking Nixon and his United State Congressional – CIA -and so government employee sell out of all things meaningful in the west to their Chinese masters.
and you still rattle on about the ‘original’ – never happen except as a staged event government office occupying politi’Kal ‘Klass fraud. As we see you rattle on about the Never happened Watergate fraud while Biden and his Traitor henchmen Milley and the joint chiefs of staff march on selling America’s military plans out to the Chinese… wow ! the Watergate has sure worked on you.
fraud .
Rarely says
Regarding the Watergate affair, Nixon certainly cooperated big time in his fall from grace.
As to the JFK assassination, I would like to know on what basis it can be asserted that “…we KNOW the CIA was DIRECTLY involved in the JFK assassination”?
David M says
We don’t, it’s a possibility though. All we know about the JFK Assassination is they are too scared to tell us what really happened. That’s why they don’t release all the documents.
James Lincoln says
You think, David M, that everything regarding the JFK assassination would have been released by now.
After all, it will have been 60 years this 22 November…
David M says
Tells you that it was a lot bigger than just Oswald doesn’t it. If the CIA was involved (and I’m guessing they were), they will never want the truth to come out because it would be embarrassing for them for that to come out. They are probably the ones blocking it coming out.