RICHARD NIXON Watergate 1974 (Part 10) The Sinister Force Divided

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It's February of 1974 and the Special Prosecutor's Office, the Sinister Force of Watergate, has gone to work to lay down their indictments of those accused of orchestrating the cover up of the Watergate burglary. But they also have fanned out into other areas of interest and zeroed in on targets for no other reason than for the effective leadership they have provided for the President they loathed.
Here you will listen in as a Grand Juror talks about the reaction of his fellow Grand Jurors to being told they could not indict the President. Hear as the Prosecutor's develop a plan to move the evidence they have gathered, without a Defense Attorney ever being present, from the Grand Jury to the Watergate Judge, an on to the Judiciary Committee of the Congress. The Committee investigation was then just forming and its lead staffer, John Doar, was an old friend of the Prosecutor's second in command, Henry Ruth.
This episode also zeroes in on another potential target. That of E. Howard Hunt's Attorney, William Bittman. An old Washington hand and protector of former President Lyndon Johnson. He had aided his client in shaking down the White House for more and more money to pay for legitimate expenses and enormous legal bills too, some of it owed to.... William Bittman. The entire Special Prosecutor's Staff wanted to indict Bittman but another old LBJ protector stepped in to protect him.
His name was Leon Jaworski, The Special Prosecutor himself. A determined friend for William Bittman, no matter what the staff said, and a determined enemy of Chuck Colson, no matter what the staff said.
No one would care enough about Justice nor the long term destruction to the reputation of Chuck Colson to protect him, even though he had barely if at all been involved in any of what the office was supposed to be investigating.