And as I said in my removed post, I would like to see a movie based on Judge Sirica’s book, To Set the Record Straight, with Al Pacino as Judge John J. Sirica.

INT. JUDGE SIRICA’S COURTROOM – DAY

The President’s lawyer goes to the podium.

LAWYER
Executive privilege protects the president from
turning over the tapes.

SIRICA
No, sir. Executive privilege does not allow the
president to withhold relevant evidence from a
criminal prosecution.

Sirica pulls a pistol from under his robe and points it at the lawyer.

SIRICA
I intend to enforce this subpoena!

NOTE: MG thinks Nixon obstructed justice and was an accessory after the fact to a burglary. There is no smoking gun whether Nixon conspired before the burglary. One can only speculate about the tapes that were erased. And Judge Sirica deserves to be remembered as a strong jurist who clearly saw what the law and the constitution demands.

Well that changes my scene in the Sirica movie. Pacino points the gun at the president’s lawyer and proclaims, “I intend to enforce this subpoena!”

The president’s lawyer goes to the drawing board and says, “let me explain why you can’t.”

Drawing a diagram, the lawyer narrates, “the only reason we know that CREEP was involved in the break in was because an informant with skeletons in his closet told a couple clueless reporters that there were higher ups involved in the break in. Once that fact was known, a Senate committee began investigating the matter and learned through a man named Butterfield that the President was recording conversations in the Oval office, and through John Dean, an egomaniac who wants to be a television personality someday after serving a term in federal prison, said that the tapes do exist. The special prosecutor, who should be fired as was Archie Cox, does not have the legal authority to subpoena those tapes. Not because of executive privilege, but because the secret informant who we will not be known about until the reporters write their book two years from now, which will then become a movie that dramatizes all this cloak and dagger stuff, infringed the civil liberties of people who are on the president’s enemy list, only we don’t know this because it is classified.”

Damn, that really changes the dramatic momentum.

The left gets away with it because the left occupies the default, unthought-through moral high ground.
E.g. try to civilly tackle OStone’s JFK “truths” and before you know it you’re an apologist for the evil military-industrial complex and the Vietnam War. Not worth it. Better to just lie back and try to enjoy it.

Very good Downs. You win the Tail Gunner Joe Award of the day.

But, such things die hard. Warren Harding is still viewed as a bumbling wad of corruption and small-minded sloth, despite reams of evidence that he was a very effective president who happened to champion liberty and small government. As long as the likes of Arthur Schlesinger keep writing the history, the truth has little bearing on the official version of events. Worse yet, Carl Bernstein never looked anything like Robert Redford, until recent years, now that Mr. Sundance has taken on the countenance of a topographic map of his beloved Rocky Mountains.

“The Truth Will Out”. Well, maybe. Just don’t hold your breath or buy ripe bananas waiting for it.

It won’t be these inaccuracies, though, that awaken the Americans who still have some gumption left: it’ll be the gaffes, politics as usual, pork, and broken promises of the Obama administration AS THESE THINGS AFFECT THEIR DAILY LIVES AND FREEDOMS. Obama is a quick learner and he may yet prove to be an able president, but thus far he lacks the gravitas and experience to get the job done. Let’s hope and pray for him and his leadership, all the while keeping our noses to the grindstone.

SInce the FBI is under the Justice Department, I don’t see where there was any real dishonesty.

And I say this as someone who long suspected (wrongly) that Deep Throat was a composite character who didn’t really exist.