Seven Pages Of Nixon Grand Jury Testimony Reveal The Real Threat Of the Deep State

There it was, finally — the secret Nixon had sought to keep under wraps: It was not the far left that most actively sought to sabotage the Nixon-Kissinger foreign policy but the hard right, not lowly pencil-pushers in the civil service but the most senior commanders at the Pentagon. Publication of the classified segment of the ex-president's grand jury testimony represents a major addition to the historical record of the era of Vietnam and Watergate. Seeking a final flourish, the old politician wanted the audience to know that except for the most infamous wiretapping of all, at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate complex, the Plumbers' work had involved vital national security interests.

Author: Josh Blackman

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