“I love the fact all the way through it's described as political intelligence. That's the phrase that's used in the Nixon White House for what they're after. So if you ever hear someone saying, 'I'm after some political intelligence,' it means bugging and burgling.”

Because the guys who are going to do it get the sense that something has been approved.

…meeting, goes and plays tennis, and then the next day approves $250,000 for a wiretapping and burglary fund and reports up to the White House that the campaign now has a sophisticated political intelligence gathering system at its disposal. And that is a euphemism for the scaled-down gemstone plan.

It's not, well, it's not so much, it is political intelligence. It is. It's just how do you get the political intelligence? Yeah, the emphasis

more on the intelligence. But anyway.

There are different accounts of the prioritization of targets, in particular for these black bag jobs that comes out of this meeting. Some of the accounts, the creep deputy say Watergate was prioritized right away. I think it's unlikely because the planning doesn't seem to really begin for another…