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MASTER PLAN, Ep 2: Watergate’s Magic Window Of Corporate Cash

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ep 2* Secret Plan for a 60-Day Lawless Window:Read the memo in which Watergate’s burglary mastermind G. Gordon Liddy lays out how anonymous corporate donors can funnel money to Nixon’s campaign before new campaign finance laws go into effect.

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hit on Anderson:  

Then in 1972, Anderson unearthed a blockbuster story: a memo written by a lobbyist proving that Nixon had intervened in a giant antitrust case involving ITT, a telecommunications conglomerate, in exchange for ITT donating $400,000 to his re-election campaign. Another Nixon scandal erupted. In the middle of the hullabaloo, Charles Colson, a top White House aide (who in his current bio refers to himself as Nixon's "hatchet man"), met with E. Howard Hunt, a former CIA officer who had become a Nixon dirty trickster, working as part of the secret "Plumbers" unit that would soon be caught breaking into the Watergate. According to Hunt, Colson told him that Nixon was enraged by Anderson and that the reporter had to be killed in what should look like an accident.

To pull off this job, Colson recruited G. Gordon Liddy, who had recently joined the Nixon campaign as an operative.As Hunt and Liddy have acknowledged, the two trailed Anderson. They sought advice from a CIA physician GUNN who had been involved in the agency's efforts to assassinate Fidel Castro. The duo considered various plots: placing poison in medicine Anderson was taking, placing LSD on the steering wheel of Anderson's car (in the hope he would start tripping and crash his vehicle), staging a fake mugging in which Anderson would be fatally knifed. But before any plan was hatched, according to Hunt, Colson told him to call off the hit.

As Feldstein notes in his book, some Nixon aides have questioned whether the murder plot occurred—despite the fact that Hunt and Liddy in later years publicly discussed it in great detail. Hunt believed that the order to kill Anderson came directly from the president. Colson, who after serving prison time for a Watergate-related charge founded Prison Fellowship Ministries, has always claimed that he and Nixon had nothing to do with this lethal conspiracy.

But Anderson never believed Colson's denial. Shortly before he died in 2005, while hospitalized for Parkinson's disease, Anderson took a stab at nailing this story—and Nixon. As Feldstein writes:

The newsman passed word to Colson that he was dying and asked him to call out of Christian compassion. Colson did. "I told him I'd been at the hospital and was having a hard time,' Anderson said, and that "no recovery was possible." The two men exchanged pleasantries and flattery, and talked about old times. Anderson had once offered to loan Colson money before he went to prison, and Colson remembered the gesture with gratitude.

Eventually, Anderson nudged the conversation toward the murder plot. "What really happened?" he asked Colson. The conversation went from warm to chilly, as Colson issued the standard denial. Anderson assumed Colson, these days a leading Christian conservative, was still lying to protect Nixon. He still believed Nixon had been in on it. But he had failed to win this much sought-after confession. (After Anderson died, Liddy, now a folk hero on the right, sent an email to a former Anderson reporter: "too bad the plumbers didn't get to that anti american traitor jackoff anderson, good riddance.")

G. Gordon Liddy

G. Gordon Liddy is "the former FBI agent who helped plan the Watergate break-in [and] capitalized on his Watergate legend and took his political views to the airwaves."[1] Liddy's radio show is syndicated by Radio America.

Also see "G. Gordon Liddy" article in the Wikipedia.

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After prison

In 1980, Liddy published an autobiography, titled Will, which sold more than a million copies and was made into a television movie. In it he states that he once made plans with Hunt to kill journalist Jack Anderson, based on a literal interpretation of a Nixon White House statement "we need to get rid of this Anderson guy".[10][11] In the mid 1980s Liddy went on the lecture circuit and was listed as the top speaker in the college circuit in 1982 by the Wall Street Journal. He later joined with LSD proponent Timothy Leary on a series of debates which were popular on the college circuit as well; Leary had once been labeled by Liddy's ex-employer Richard Nixon as "the most dangerous man in America." Liddy remained in the public eye with two guest appearances on the 1984-89 television series Miami Vice, playing the role of "Capt. Real Estate," a character loosely based on himself. In Miami Vice, he acted with John Diehl, who would later go on to portray Liddy himself in Oliver Stone's 1995 movie *Nixon*, making him one of the few actors who have acted with their own portrayers. Liddy's other TV guest credits include Airwolf, MacGyver and the short-lived The Highwayman. Comic book author Alan Moore has stated that the character of The Comedian (Edward Blake) from his graphic novel Watchmen was based in part on Liddy.

In the early 1980s Liddy joined forces with former Niles, Illinois Police Officer and co-owner of The Protection Group, Ltd., Thomas E. Ferraro, Jr., to start up a private security and countersurveillance firm called, G. Gordon Liddy & Associates. The firm was not a success, however and it filed for bankruptcy on November 12, 1988.[12]

In 1992, Liddy emerged to host his own talk radio show. Less than a year later, its popularity led to national syndication through Viacom's Westwood One Network and later on, Radio America, in 2003.

In addition to Will the nonfiction books When I Was a Kid, This Was a Free Country (2002), Fight Back! Tackling Terrorism, Liddy Style (2006, with his son[13] Cdr. James G. Liddy, J. Michael Barrett and Joel Selanikio), Liddy has published two novels: Out of Control (1979) The Monkey Handlers (1990).

[edit] Controversial statements

Liddy claimed that his detractors omit some important context:

“I was talking about a situation in which law enforcement agents come smashing into a house, don't say who they are and their guns are out, they're shooting and they're in the wrong place. This has happened time and time again. The ATF has gone in and gotten the wrong person in the wrong place. The law is that if somebody is shooting at you, using deadly force, the mere fact that they are a law enforcement officer, if they are in the wrong, does not mean you are obliged to allow yourself to be killed so your kinfolk can have a wrongful death action. You are legally entitled to defend yourself and I was speaking of exactly those kind of situations. If you're going to do that, you should know that they're wearing body armor so you should use a head shot. Now all I'm doing is stating the law, but all the nuances in there got left out when the story got repeated.[15]

Sandy Liddy Bourne

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Alexandra "Sandy" Liddy Bourne is the Heartland Institute's vice-president for policy strategy. She is the daughter of former Nixon aide and convicted Watergate criminal G. Gordon Liddy, who spent more than 52 months in prison for his part in the Watergate burglary.[1] She serves as the conservative think tank's Washington, D.C. media spokesperson and liaison to elected officials, donors, and allies. "She authors media statements and commissions and edits original research on the major issues of the day, particularly those concerning energy and environmental regulation," according to Heartland. [2]

Bourne's speech at the Heartland Institute's 2008 International Conference on Climate Change was titled, "The Kyoto Legacy; The Progeny of a Carbon Cartel in the States." [3]

Bourne worked for the American Legislative Exchange Council and was credited with increasing enactment of ALEC's model legislation in states throughout the country.[4] She was named chair of ALEC's Energy, Environment, Natural Resources, and Agriculture Task Force in October 1999.[5] In 2004, after five years in that role, she became ALEC's Director of Legislation and Policy.[6]

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  1. ↑ David Ellis Keeping it in the Family, People magazine, October 30, 1995
  2. ↑ "Conference speakers: 2008 International Conference on Climate Change (PDF)," Heartland Institute, accessed March 2008.
  3. ↑ "2008 International Conference on Climate Change (PDF)," Heartland Institute, accessed March 2008
  4. ↑ The Heartland Institute Experts: Mrs. Alexandra Sandra Liddy Bourne, organizational web site profile page, accessed April 14, 2011
  5. ↑ Web archive of http://www.alec.org/viewpage.cfm?id=614&xsectionid=5, Accessed July 19, 2011.
  6. ↑ ALEC Appoints New Director of Legislation and Policy Sandy Liddy Bourne To Lead Policy Department for State Legislators’ Organization," ALEC press release, September 7, 2004.

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A Bill In the Corporate Polluter's Interest

The money paper trail for this ALEC model bill runs deep, to put it bluntly.

When the ALEC model bill was adopted in 2000 by ALEC's Natural Resources Task Force, the head of that committee was Sandy Liddy Bourne, who after that stint, became Director of Legislation and Policy for ALEC. She is now with the Heartland Institute as vice-president for policy strategy. In Sandy Liddy Bourne's bio on the Heartland website, she boasts that, "under her leadership, 20 percent of ALEC model bills were enacted by one state or more, up from 11 percent."

SourceWatch states that Liddy Bourne " ... is the daughter of former Nixon aide and convicted Watergate criminal G. Gordon Liddy, who spent more than 52 months in prison for his part in the Watergate burglary ... [and her] speech at the Heartland Institute's 2008 International Conference on Climate Change was titled, 'The Kyoto Legacy; The Progeny of a Carbon Cartel in the States."

The Heartland Institute was formerly heavily funded by ExxonMobil and Koch Industries, just like ALEC was at the time that Liddy Bourne's committee devised the "Environmental Literacy Improvement Act." These two corporations are infamous for their funding of climate change "skeptic" think tanks and front groups.

Today, the corporate polluter members of ALEC's Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force include representatives from American Electric Power, the Fraser Institute, the Cato Institute, the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the Institute for Energy Research, the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, the Heartland Institute, and the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity, to name several.

Alexandra Liddy Bourne

 Credentials

Source: [1]

 Background

Alexandra "Sandy" Liddy Bourne a senior fellow at the Heartland Institutewhere she addresses energy and environmental regulation.

She was the Heartland Institute's vice-president for policy and strategy from 2006 until December 2008 and acted as Heartland’s Washington DC media spokesman and liaison to Heartland’s Legislative Advisors (elected officials), donors, and allies. [2]

Bourne was the past director of the Energy, Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture Task Force for the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) and advisor to the ALEC Homeland Security Working Group. [3]

She is the former Director of the Energy, Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture Task Force, ALEC Member, Virginia Board of Agriculture and Consumer Services

Bourne authored the 2004 ALEC publication "'Sons-of-Kyoto' Legislation: Greenhouse Gas Regulation in the States," where she argued that the Kyoto Protocol and the movement behind it threatened to ruin the free market system and turn the global economy over to a "carbon cartel."

Stance on Climate Change

"Regardless of the scientific uncertainty and the economic costs, there is an orchestrated movement to force the federal government and the American public to implement Kyoto-like registration and develop a cap and trade carbon emission system. Ultimately, this system will create a national energy tax in the short term and has implications that may harm free trade in the future. The legacy that we may hand over to future generations is not one of individual choices in a free market system, but one of lost opportunities in a global market controlled by a carbon cartel." [4]

Key Quotes

"This is poor methodology and a dangerous precedent to use to protect public health in that it directs resources to potential threats and outliers in data as opposed to current environmental threats that are having a significant detrimental effect upon human health. There is no direct evidence that increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere have had a significant impact in respiratory diseases or cardiovascular diseases." [5]

Key Deeds

April, 2008

In 2008 Bourne announced that the implementation of climate legislation would burden the Southern States and lead to "another Civil War here in a short period of time, because the cost is going to go up." [6]

March, 2008

Bourne was a speaker at the Heartland Institute's First International Conference on Climate Change. [7]

March, 2004

Bourne was a speaker at a NCPA Briefing on Global Warming titled "What Do We Really Know vs. What We Are Told." Other speakers included prominent climate change deniers David Legates, Myron Ebell, and Patrick Michaels. [8]

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 Publications

A search of Google Scholar reveals that Alexandrea Liddy Bourne has never published an article in a peer-reviewed journal on any subject.

The following citation is the only item listed (referencing an article originally published with the American Legislative Exchange Council):

 Resources

  1. "Alexandra Liddy Bourne," American Energy Freedom Center.
  2. "Heartland Experts: Alexandra (Sandy) Liddy Bourne," The Heartland Institute. Accessed March 1, 2012.
  3. "Alexandra Liddy Bourne," Profile at the National Center for Policy Analysis. Accessed March 1, 2012.
  4. Alexandra Liddy Bourne. "Sons of Kyoto: Greenhouse Gas Regulation in the States" (PDF), American Legislative Exchange Council. Republished by the Heartland Institute.
  5. "Comments of Alexandra Liddy Bourne, R.N., M.S.N, on EPA’s Proposed Endangerment Finding," The Heartland Institute, June 23, 2009.
  6. "Heartland VP: 'Yankee taxes' on global warming will lead to 'another Civil War'," ThinkProgress, April 15, 2008.
  7. "Alexandra Liddy Bourne," International Conference on Climate Change (climateconference.heartland.org). Accessed March 1, 2012.
  8. "NCPA Earth Day Briefing on Global Warming: 'What Do We Really Know vs. What We Are Told'," U.S. Newswire, April 20, 2004.
  9. "Environmental Experts," The National Center for Policy Analysis. Accessed November 30, 2011.
  10. "Sandra Liddy Bourne," SourceWatch profile.