John Mitchell, the former attorney general who now heads the Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP), responds to the news he Watergate burglars, James McCord, is an employee of the committee (see 2:30 a.m.June 17, 1972): “The person involved is the proprietor of a private security agency who was employed by our committee months ago to assist with the installation of our security system. He has, as we understand it, a number of business clients and relationships, and we have no knowledge of these relationships. We want to emphasize that this man and the other people involved were not operating either on our behalf or with our consent. There is no place in the campaign or in the electoral process for this kind of activity, and we will not permit or condone it.” [Bernstein and Woodward, 1974, pp. 20] CREEP will later admit that McCord is the full-time security director for CREEP (see June 19, 1972).