In multiple meetings on the 21st and 22nd, Dean and Gray discussed how to handle the case, though Dean already had privately settled on a two-part strategy: The White House and CREEP would have Hunt and Liddy take the fall, arguing that the two men had been rogue, redirecting funds meant for other purposes to criminal activity, and then CREEP would stop the FBI from tracing the burglars’ funds back through to campaign donors, a thread that could very easily lead to all manner of other scandals and campaign-related crimes.
