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The recent unsealing of old Watergate-era files, combined with the Trump administration’s earlier mass release of JFK assassination records, has thrown more fuel on the fire for Americans who do not trust the permanent Washington bureaucracy. Officials and journalists are finally being forced to reckon with documents that show the Nixon White House and intelligence agencies operated in a fog of secrecy and influence that too often served elite interests over the nation’s.
Veteran political operative Roger Stone has publicly connected the dots in blunt terms, arguing these newly surfaced records underscore a long-standing deep state alliance between the CIA and elements inside the Justice Department and political class. Stone told Newsmax that while not every paper changes his conclusions, the pattern of motive, means, and opportunity around figures like Lyndon Johnson and intelligence operatives deserves renewed scrutiny rather than reflexive dismissal.
Among the most consequential disclosures are Watergate-era entries showing President Nixon’s own contingency planning and rare sworn testimony, which reveal how tight the links were between the executive, covert operations, and global Cold War maneuvers. Those files even include Nixon’s rare, candid grand jury statements and internal memoranda that cast new light on how national-security claims were used to keep uncomfortable facts hidden from the American people.
The CIA connection is not theoretical — archival FOIA records demonstrate that operatives and technicians later implicated in Watergate had documented ties to agency programs and capabilities, raising obvious questions about institutional overlap and accountability. Longstanding anomalies, such as celebrated agency technicians later convicted or involved in political break-ins, now sit squarely in the public record and demand explanation from agencies that once claimed minimal involvement.
Conservatives should not reflexively cheer conspiracy theories, but neither should we allow intelligence agencies and a pliant political establishment to hide behind decades of convenient silence. If the documents suggest that national-security rhetoric was repeatedly used to cover political shenanigans, then transparency, oversight, and consequences are not radical notions — they are the very guardrails of a constitutional republic.
This moment is a test: will Washington double down on secrecy and self-protection, or will lawmakers and the public demand real reforms to prevent intelligence powers from being misapplied for partisan ends? The right answer is clear — full declassification where possible, congressional investigations with real teeth, and prosecutions when laws were broken, regardless of party or rank.
Patriots who love this country must press for truth, not tribal silence. These files are a reminder that liberty depends on an informed citizenry and institutions that answer to the people, not to hidden networks of insiders who think themselves above the law.
