The similarities to Nixon's White House Plumbers is just history rhyming.
G. Gordon Liddy and Howard Hunt during the Watergate trial in 1973.Picture G. Gordon Liddy, a White House aide, decked out in a wig, carrying fake IDs and hobbling around in special shoes that caused him to limp as he surveilled Fielding’s office, and it’s hard not to chuckle. But the crime they planned was reprehensible. The Plumbers team of Egil Krogh,
Both Nixon’s Plumbers and the Coffee County Three tried to seize sensitive information. In his autobiography, “Will,” Liddy wrote that the burglars made a thorough search of Fielding’s office but found no files on Ellsberg. Liddy called the operation a “dry hole” but added that he wasn’t discouraged by the operation’s failure.
Perhaps that bravado contributed to Liddy’s proposal, in early 1972, for an “intelligence program” that included electronic surveillance of the Democratic National Committee’s headquarters. Once approved, Liddy’s plan led to the infamous Watergate burglary. And it was the need to subsequently hide the existence of the Plumbers — whose members, Liddy and Hunt, oversaw the burglary — that was a key factor in the Watergate cover-up.
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