“Watergate prosecutors had evidence that operatives for then-President Richard Nixon planned an assault on anti-war demonstrators in 1972, including potentially physically attacking Vietnam whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, according to a never-before-published memo obtained by NBC News. The document, an 18-page 1973 investigative memorandum from the Watergate Special Prosecution Force, sheds new light on how prosecutors were investigating attempts at domestic political violence by Nixon aides, an extremely serious charge.” Ellsberg was the whistleblower who leaked the Pentagon Papers, fully declassified in 2011, which revealed the secret bombings of Laos and Cambodia, and showed the Johnson administration had systematically lied to Congress and the public about the war in Vietnam. Read story here.
Photo: Nixon, the criminal in the White House 