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...January 1973, Colson said, he had been asked by Haldeman what would happen if Hunt "blew" (talked to investigators). "I said I thought it would be very bad... Bob [Haldeman] said, 'Then we can't let that happen.' " When Colson was finished, Chief Prosecutor James Neal told Sirica in a lawyers' conference that he was "more than willing" for the defense to "bring on more witnesses like Colson...
...Under Neal's attack, Mitchell insisted that seizing leaders of groups planning demonstrations against the 1972 Republican National Convention and taking them to Mexico-part of a plan presented to him by convicted Burglar G. Gordon Liddy-would not have constituted the crime of kidnaping. Mitchell called it "segregating" the disrupters...
Would they have agreed to such segregation? asked the incredulous Neal. "I don't presume so," admitted Mitchell...
Some Obligation. Whenever Mitchell contended that he could not recall some cover-up act, Neal reread the testimony of other witnesses "to refresh Mr. Mitchell's recollection"-and to make the point that Mitchell was contradicting the testimony of at least six prosecution witnesses. Mitchell became especially entangled in trying to explain why he had advised that a final payment of $75,000 be made to Burglar...
Mitchell's weak attempts to stonewall Neal's questioning so concerned some defense attorneys that one of them, Jacob Stein, protested to Sirica that Mitchell's "credibility" was adversely "affecting" the other defendants. Sirica had earlier shown his dissatisfaction with Mitchell's answers. He dismissed the jury and posed questions of his own about why anyone had paid the original defendants "for support of families or anything else" unless "some wrongdoing" or "some obligation" was involved. "I can't enlighten you, your honor," Mitchell replied. "I didn't have anything to do with...