Egil Krogh

James M Sandbrook

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Egil Krogh

Egil Krogh a man who got caught up in the Watergate scandal.

Before he joined Nixon this man was a Christian who had work ethics and beliefs to stop him doing wrong, so it seemed. He was a part of what was called The Watergate Plumbers, officially designed to protect national security. His friends called him Bud. And he was known as being a straight man.

A man named Dr Daniel Ellsberg leaked a publication of the Pentagon Papers to the press.

President Nixon was not happy about this. The Watergate Plumbers were designed to stop leaks fast.

They helped setup a break-in to a psychiatrists (Dr Lewis fielding, Dr Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist) office to get information.

The idea was to locate files and find out if Ellsberg had any relationships with the Soviets, and to try and find anything else to would help in discrediting him.

Egil Krogh wrote: 'I came to equate the Presidents interests (As I perceived them) with the country’s interests. The Presidents view of what was critical to serve the national security interests became my view. Loyalty to the President was primary. Loyalty to spiritual and moral principles, to the U.S. Constitution, and to the law became secondary.'

As the Watergate investigation went on Egil Krogh lied under oath to protect the activities of the Watergate Plumbers (Can you see how he is slipping deeper into trouble).

As time went on a year later, a point he felt was the lowest of his life, his conscience was getting to him.

He prayed in a genuine prayer for help. He asked God for guidance and comfort.

He says that he simply didn't know what to do. He was open.

He wrote:

“Just look at this,” came the thought which seemed to come from a mind outside and yet still inside myself. “Just look at the rights you and your family are enjoying right now. These rights emanate from the founding ideas of this country that are protecting you. You’re under indictment in both federal and state courts. You’re publicly identified with a profoundly serious crime. Yet just look, just look at what you’re enjoying. You’re able to travel where you want. To speak to whomever you wish. To pray freely in any church. Talk to the press. Now, what are you standing for in the defense you’re putting forward to the charges against you?”

The answer came to him:

“You’re standing for the right of a person in government, serving a President at the seat of highest power, to make a judgment based on his personal, subjective sense of the national security interest to strip away from another American his constitutional, Fourth Amendment right to be free from an unauthorized search. How can you continue to enjoy all of these wonderful rights, guaranteed to you and your family by the Constitution you were sworn to uphold, while defending conduct that abolished a similar right for another?”

The answer came immediately. "You can’t do it anymore. You must stop defending yourself. If you defend further, if you continue to justify violating rights you’re continuing to enjoy, you’re a hypocrite. Even worse, you’re a traitor to the fundamental American idea of the right of an individual to be free from unwarranted government intrusion in his life.”

He decided to plead guilty.

He wrote later that, "The discrediting of Dr Ellsberg, ... today strikes me as repulsive...'

He finally realised the wrongs that he had done and new that he must be responsible for his actions.

He knew that he had become confused and such, and that he had excuses, but he still did what he did, and he need for his own peace of mind face up to what he did.

What he did was morally right, and he was responsible and courageous putting his guilt into action and making things right.

Please note how he finally came to the conclusion to do the right thing and admit guilt.

He must also have come to the conclusion that if he won that he would have to live with the lies.

He had the courage to admit his part in what happened and that he was wrong in doing the bad thinsg that he had done.

All the best from

James M Sandbrook.

August 10, 2014 at 7:08 PM.

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