Thread by @Farrier105

@tedcruz "unprecedented in the 243 years of our nation’s history."

With FDR, LBJ, and Nixon in the White House are you sure of that? Try this: Page 244 of WATERGATE: THE HIDDEN HISTORY by Lamar Waldron.

@tedcruz "Joseph Califano wrote in his autobiography that on 'June 11, 1963, Cy Vance and I were sitting in the Army war room in the Pentagon, with sophisticated communications...capabilities." So that Califano and Vance would "know everything the White House and Justice...

@tedcruz ...Department were doing, we secretly ran all their communication lines through the Army war room. Sitting there, Vance and I were able to listen to any conversations the President and Attorney General had" regarding a civil rights matter they were dealing with at the time...

@tedcruz ..."Because we assumed Robert Kennedy would have objected to our eavesdropping, we never let him know." Califano's admission is remarkable--especially since NIXON HIMSELF (emphasis added) would be the target of surveillance by the Joint Chiefs before Watergate...

@tedcruz "...something that had been going on since JFK's Presidency."

The funny part about this is, Califano, a high-ranking Democrat operative who was DNC attorney during Watergate, was working on a Robert Kennedy covert operation involving a coup against Castro at the Pentagon.

@tedcruz Among the men with whom Califano worked on that project in 1963, in that same Army war room, were ALEXANDER HAIG and ALEXANDER BUTTERFIELD. Haig would be Nixon's Chief of Staff during Watergate and Butterfield would be the man who wired the White House for the Nixon taping...

@tedcruz ...system. What are the odds the DNC's attorney would be working on a covert operation for Robert Kennedy with Watergate figures Haig and Butterfield, and doing that work while eavesdropping on JFK and RFK for the Pentagon?

Nothing new under the sun.

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