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>Nixon targeting blacks, hippies, and the anti-war left According to Dan Baum, after Ehrlichman died, years after Ehrlichman supposedly told him. Furthermore,
by danjoc 9y ago
>Nixon targeting blacks, hippies, and the anti-war left
According to Dan Baum, after Ehrlichman died, years after Ehrlichman supposedly told him. Furthermore, even if Ehrlichman did tell him this, Ehrlichman was convicted of perjury, conspiracy, and obstruction of justice.
Hearsay, from a convicted liar, retold by a biased individual with no apparent proof other than his own word.
- heroprotagonist 9y ago> Hearsay, from a convicted liar, retold by a biased individual with no apparent proof other than his own word. This could also be posed as: > statement from at-the-time President's chief domestic advisor to a journalist during an interview, in 1994 But yeah, he's dead, and the fact that the reporter took so long to make it public makes it suspicious and doubtable. Your criticism is fair, but surely you can think of a few other examples if you dislike this one? MLK wiretapping, McCarthyism, etc? If not, and you are up for a read, check out this 69 page document from the ACLU: https://www.aclu.org/other/unleashed-and-unaccountable-fbis-unchecked-abuse-authority https://www.aclu.org/other/unleashed-and-unaccountable-fbis-...
- danjoc 9y agoYou already destroyed your credibility with the Ehrlichman point. If you try to mislead people, you lose trust. I don't need to read the aclu document. I'm not arguing with you. I'm pointing out that the moment you reference Ehrlichman in any way, you will lose all your credibility again. You do damage to your own causes when you try to mislead people like this.
- heroprotagonist 9y agoIt wasn't an attempt to mislead. You're reading way too much intent into this. I conceded your point, there's no need to linger and dig it in when it doesn't advance the conversation.