McCain's BFF Gordon Liddy Plotted to Kill U.S. Journalist Jack Anderson

I wish the Obama campaign had spent some time exposing McCain's friendship with this psychopath. At least he was never a member of ACORN.


McCain on Liddy's radio show:

"I'm proud of you, I'm proud of your family." "It's always a pleasure for me to come on your program, Gordon, and congratulations on your continued success and adherence to the principles and philosophies that keep our nation great."


Liddy describing his plot to kill journalist Jack Anderson in Playboy:

PLAYBOY: …What did you finally decide on?

LIDDY: A simple if un-James Bondish method… we merely decided to make it a lethal mugging.

PLAYBOY: Who would have done the job?

LIDDY: It was initially decided to assign it to some of our Cuban-exile assets, but then Hunt began to worry that our principals would deem it too sensitive a matter to be entrusted to them. So I volunteered to do it myself.

[...]

LIDDY: …We didn’t want to make it look like anything more than another Washington street-crime statistic, remember, so no sophisticated weaponry could be employed.

PLAYBOY: How would you have killed him?

LIDDY: Oh, I would have knifed him or broken his neck, probably. One of us would have died, no doubt about it. But, as I say, we never received the final green light.

PLAYBOY: Were you relieved or disappointed?

LIDDY: I was neither. I was acting on the instructions of my principal, and I was prepared to follow those instructions either way they went.

PLAYBOY: You really see nothing anomalous, much less frightening, about two aides to the President of the United States cold-bloodedly plotting to assassinate one of the country’s leading reporters?

LIDDY:I know it violates the sensibilities of the innocent and tender-minded, but in the real world, you sometimes have to employ extreme and extralegal methods to preserve the very system whose laws you’re violating.



Liddy giving advice on killing federal agents:

"If the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms insists upon a firefight, give them a firefight. Just remember, they're wearing flak jackets and you're better off shooting for the head."

http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/13754.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/05/g-gordon-liddy-john-mccai_n_100134.html

 

It gets even better. Apparently, Liddy held a fundraiser for McCain-

In a March 9, 1998, article (retrieved from Nexis), The Washington Post's Al Kamen reported that Liddy hosted a fundraiser for McCain's 1998 Senate re-election campaign.

Kamen wrote:

Here's one we wished we hadn't missed. "G. Gordon Liddy and family cordially invite you to a fundraiser reception" at their home in Scottsdale, Ariz., "in support of Sen. John McCain's 1998 re-election campaign."

So McCain (R), a bona fide American hero, is having G. Gordon Liddy, a bona fide American felon and, worse yet, talk show host, do a fund-raiser for him? What is this all about?

Liddy has a home there and "he called and said he wanted to invite some friends over," McCain said, "and I said okay. I was surprised when he made the offer. I hardly know him." As for the old conviction, McCain noted, "He's a successful talk show host."

The affair, which took place over the weekend, was $ 125 per person, but those who ponied up $ 250 a person got to go to the early "VIP reception." There you could have your picture taken with McCain and Liddy.

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