So I guess in three decades we can expect some guilty-minded aide to step forward to spill the beans on how Bush and his whole cabinet knew everything was a lie when they manipulated the country into this war with Iraq. Bush is even using his dad's old stand-by line, "I was out of the loop" to cover-up what he knew and let others take the blame on the "cancer" growing on the White House. Expect some interesting pardons the last day that Bush leaves office.



Ex-Aide Says Nixon Ordered Break-In
Sun Jul 27, 7:56 AM ET
By JENNIFER C. KERR, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - Coming forward three decades after Watergate, a former top aide to President Nixon now contends that Nixon ordered the break-in that would lead to his resignation.

Jeb Stuart Magruder previously had gone no further than saying that John Mitchell, the former attorney general who was running the Nixon re-election campaign in 1972, approved the plan to break into the Democratic Party headquarters at the Watergate office building near the White House and bug the telephone of the party chairman, Larry O'Brien.

Magruder, in a PBS documentary airing Wednesday and in an Associated Press interview last week, says he was meeting with Mitchell on March 30, 1972, when he heard Nixon tell Mitchell over the phone to go ahead with the plan.

The break-in occurred 2 1/2 months later, on June 17, 1972...





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