We’re seeing rampant criminality and murder through the course of this account. Certain individuals haven’t been facing all that much resistance for their misdeeds. I think it’s because of media mind control - threats, bribery, blackmail and seduction.
Henry was no fool, of course. He telephoned Hoover a few hours later to remind him that the investigation be handled discreetly "so no stories will get out."
Hoover must have smiled, but said all right. And by five o'clock he was back on the telephone to Henry with the report that the Times reporter “may have gotten some of his information from the Southeast Asian desk of the Department of Defense's Public Affairs Office."
More specifically, Hoover suggested the source could be a man named Mort Halperin (a Kissinger staffer) and another man who worked in the Systems Analysis Agency .... According to Hoover's memo,
Kissinger hoped "I would follow it up as far as we can take it and they will destroy whoever did this if we can find him, no matter where he is."
The last line of that memo gives an accurate reflection of Henry's rage, as I remember it. Nevertheless, Nixon was one hundred percent behind the wiretaps. And I was, too. And so the program started, inspired by Henry's rage but ordered by Nixon, who soon broadened it even further to include newsmen.
Someone like that is perennially in the middle of our government?
Why?
Eventually, seventeen people were wiretapped by the FBI including seven on Kissinger's NSC staff and three on the White House staff.
Spying on us is a violation of our Constitutional rights.
Why is this foreign born man getting away with violating our
rights?
And thus occurred the birth of the "plumbers" and of the assault on American law and democracy that they inaugurated. Commenting on the lamentable end of this process, Haldeman wrote that he still believed that ex-President Nixon (who was then still alive) should agree to the release of the remaining tapes.
No one elects him and we can’t vote him out. Why?
But: This time my view is apparently not shared by the man who was one reason for the original decision to start the taping process. Henry Kissinger is determined to stop the tapes from reaching the public.... Nixon made the point that Kissinger was really the one who had the most to lose from the tapes becoming public.
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution (Protection from unreasonable search and seizure)
Henry apparently felt that the tapes would expose a lot of things he had said that would be very disadvantageous to him publicly. Nixon said that in making the deal for custody of his Presidential papers, which was originally announced after his pardon but then was shot down by Congress, it was Henry who called him and insisted on Nixon's right to destroy the tapes.
I think I’ve been harassed for years because these illegal activities have not been reformed and it is very frustrating to fight for the law against the people who should be upholding it.
That was, of course, the thing that destroyed the deal. A society that has been "plumbed" has the right to demand that its plumbers be compelled to make some restitution by way of full disclosure.
"The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer."
Henry Kissinger, diplomat, born May 27, 1923
The litigation to put the Nixon tapes in the public trust is only partially complete; no truthful account of the Vietnam years will be complete until Kissinger's part in what we already know has been made fully transparent.
Until that time, Kissinger's role in the violation of American law at the close of the Vietnam war makes the perfect counterpart to the 1968 covert action that helped him to power in the first place.
The two parentheses enclose a series of premeditated war crimes which still have power to stun the imagination.
Now artists are being treated monstrously.
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Bangladesh:
One Genocide, One Coup and One Assassination
I’m shining a light on this pattern of behavior because it is absolutely unacceptable and anyone with a human heart would have to agree with that.
The annals of American diplomacy contain many imperishable pages of humanism, which may, and should, be set against some of the squalid and dispiriting traffic recorded in these pages.
There is nothing hidden which will not be made known.
One might cite the extraordinary 1915 dispatches of Ambassador Henry Morgenthau from his post in Ottoman Turkey, in which he employed consular and intelligence reports to give a picture of the deliberate state massacre of the Armenian minority, the first genocide of the twentieth century. (The word “genocide" having not then been coined, Ambassador Morgenthau had recourse to the-in some ways more expressive-term “race murder.")