One Straight Out Of The Nixon Playbook

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Talk about unimpeachable sources...

[Andrew D]

What is beyond doubt is that Nixon ordered the Attorney General to direct the INS to "look over all of the activities of the Los Angeles Times" and to "send their teams in to see whether they are violating the wetback thing."

IRS, INS, what difference does it make? Nixon personally ordered the Attorney General to use the coercive power of the government against a media entity which Nixon did not like. Is there any evidence that Obama personally ordered the IRS to do what the IRS did?

The American Journalism Review quotes the tapes:

The final Watergate tapes released by the National Archives reveal that Richard Nixon refused to let the enormous burdens of the presidency distract him from an important personal project — harassing the Los Angeles Times.

The tapes confirm the view of historians and contemporary observers that Nixon took a hands-on, detail-
oriented approach to tormenting people he disliked. In a single day, October 7, 1971, Nixon ordered Attorney General John Mitchell to have the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) raid the Times for illegal aliens, directed Mitchell to check whether Times Publisher Otis Chandler's gardener was a "wetback" and told Mitchell he had ordered Treasury Secretary John Connally to have the IRS investigate every member of Chandler's family.

Not coincidentally, the Times had run a story the day before on an INS raid that nabbed 36 suspected illegal aliens at a company owned by Romana Banuelos, Nixon's nominee for Treasurer of the United States.

Following that story, Nixon, a champion of strict law enforcement, leapt into action — against INS District Director George Rosenberg, who had enforced the immigration laws against Banuelos' employees. Nixon called Rosenberg's boss, the U.S. attorney general:

Nixon: The fellow out there in the Immigration Service..is a kike by the name of Rosenberg. He is to be out. He is to be out. Transfer him to some other place out of Los Angeles. I don't give a goddamn what the story is.

Rosenberg's job security had come to an end, but not Nixon's tantrum:

Nixon: There's one thing that I want done and I don't want any argument about it. I want you to direct the most trusted person you have in the Immigration Service that they are to look over all of the activities of the Los Angeles Times — all, underlined. And they are to send their teams in to see whether they are violating the wetback thing.

Now let me explain, 'cause as a Californian, I know. Everybody in California hires them. There's no law against it, because they are there, because — for menial things and so forth. Otis Chandler — I want him checked with regard to his gardener. I understand he's a wetback. Is that clear?

Mitchell: Yes, sir.

(Italics in original; boldface added.)

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Republican IRS agent says Cincinnati began 'Tea Party' inquiries
David Morgan and Kim Dixon
Reuters
4:08 p.m. CDT, June 9, 2013

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Internal Revenue Service manager, who described himself as a conservative Republican, told congressional investigators that he and a local colleague decided to give conservative groups the extra scrutiny that has prompted weeks of political controversy.

In an official interview transcript released on Sunday by Democratic Representative Elijah Cummings, the manager said he and an underling set aside "Tea Party" and "patriot" groups that had applied for tax-exempt status because the organizations appeared to pose a new precedent that could affect future IRS filings.

Cummings, top Democrat on the House of Representatives Oversight and Government Reform Committee conducting the probe, told CNN's "State of the Union" program that the manager's comments provided evidence that politics was not behind IRS actions that have fueled a month-long furor in Washington.

"He is a conservative Republican working for the IRS. I think this interview and these statements go a long way toward showing that the White House was not involved in this," Cummings told CNN's "State of the Union" program.

news story

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And the Nixon comparison goes straight into the garbage.



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[dales]

.... goes straight into the garbage.



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