Speaking of Nixon ...How many here are familiar with "HUSTON PLAN" ....??

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July 14, 1970: Nixon Approves ‘Huston Plan’ for Domestic Surveillance President Nixon approves the “Huston Plan” for greatly expanding domestic intelligence-gathering by the FBI, CIA and other agencies. Four days later he rescinds his approval. Nixon aide Tom Charles Huston comes up with the plan, which involves authorizing the CIA, FBI, NSA, and military intelligence agencies to escalate their electronic surveillance of “domestic security threats” in the face of supposed threats from Communist-led youth agitators and antiwar groups (see June 5, 1970). The plan would also authorize the surreptitious reading of private mail, lift restrictions against surreptitious entries or break-ins to gather information, plant informants on college campuses, and create a new, White House-based “Interagency Group on Domestic Intelligence and Internal Security.” Huston’s Top Secret memo warns that parts of the plan are “clearly illegal.” Nixon approves the plan, but rejects one element—that he personally authorize any break-ins. Nixon orders that all information and operations to be undertaken under the new plan be channeled through his chief of staff, H. R. Haldeman, with Nixon deliberately being left out of the loop. The first operations to be undertaken are using the Internal Revenue Service to harass left-wing think tanks and charitable organizations such as the Brookings Institute and the Ford Foundation. Huston writes that “aking sensitive political inquiries at the IRS is about as safe a procedure as trusting a whore,” since the administration has no “reliable political friends at IRS.” He adds, “We won’t be in control of the government and in a position of effective leverage until such time as we have complete and total control of the top three slots of the IRS.” Huston suggests breaking into the Brookings Institute to find “the classified material which they have stashed over there,” adding: “There are a number of ways we could handle this. There are risks in all of them, of course; but there are also risks in allowing a government-in-exile to grow increasingly arrogant and powerful as each day goes by.” In 2007, author James Reston Jr. will call the Huston plan “arguably the most anti-democratic document in American history… a blueprint to undermine the fundamental right of dissent and free speech in America.”

And, it seems after Nixon's withdrawal of his approval, he begins to follow the plan
anyway --

[Captain Hilts]

1. I sure am!!! It horrified J. Edgar Hoover! I was just telling about it today to someone. nt

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2. Nixon: Certifiable Nut. Bush: Certifiable Moron. n-t

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3. Orwell's 1984

was written as a warning. The fascists took it as a manual and tried to run with it.

Fortunately for humanity we outnumber them and we know how to read, unlike the majority of sheople they need implement their dreams of a totalitarian utopia. Unfortunately for us they have made counting our numbers difficult to say the least.

The Dems better put one thing high on the agenda right off the starting blocks, accountability in vote counting and long visits behind bars for anyone who attempts to discourage another American's right to cast that vote or have it counted.

The whole financial fiasco is a right wing diversion and outright looting of the Treasury that the Government, regardless of party, will never acknowledge out of fear that the people would kill them all. This is not by accident. It is by design.

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4. Kick -- don't say I didn't try to tell you ...