If you want to report presidential misconduct to Congress, the logical place to start would be with your own state's congressmen. If they won't do anything, you could try congressmen from other states, especially ones that are of the opposite party. No luck there, try the news media. You're right that Congress might not want to do anything about it, but remember the main reason you're doing this is to cover your own ass. You want to go on record as being the whistleblower in the case, because it's better to be a whistleblower than a co-defendant. As one of the president's men, the worst thing that can happen to you if you disobey a lawful order is you get fired. The worst thing that can happen to you if you obey an unlawful order is you go to prison.
In the military you can go to prison either for disobeying a lawful order, or for obeying an unlawful order. The way you handle this is you ask the order giver, preferably in front of witnesses, if he is giving you a direct order or just a suggestion. If he knows he's in the wrong, he will tell you it's just suggestion. You can't go to prison for disobeying a suggestion, but you can go to prison for obeying a suggestion that you do something illegal.
The Birchers have an inner sanctum? Well maybe, but why would they need something like that? My experience was that they were just a harmless bunch of booksellers, which is pretty much what the California investigation concluded. I was not bragging about that California investigation, I was just saying. I seem to remember you asking me if the Birchers might be a commie front, and I was telling you what I knew about that. It happened a decade or so before I joined the Birchers, so it was old news by the time I got it. I read about it in their literature and discussed it with other Birchers. I passed the information on to you in good faith, it's not my fault if it was a lie. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying it is a lie, I'm just saying that, if it's a lie, it's not my lie.
Speaking of My Lai, now there was a real massacre for you. Your so called "Saturday Night Massacre" pales in comparison. It happened after I was out of the army, but I talked it over with one of my old army buddies who came up north to visit me. We concluded that the most likely scenario was that Lt. Cally's boss had indeed told him to kill all those people, but he probably didn't make it a direct order. We'll never know for sure because Cally's boss conveniently died before the trial. At any rate, Cally was convicted and sentenced to life, but Nixon or Ford, whoever was president at the time, immediately commuted it to 20 years. After the media frenzy died down, Cally was paroled and went home. We kind of suspected something like that might happen. Cally likely took the fall for somebody else and was rewarded with a light sentence. Shit happens in a war, but that don't make it right.
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