Editing G. Gordon Liddy (section)

==After prison==
In 1980, Liddy published an autobiography, titled ''Will'', which sold more than a million copies and was made into a [[Will: G. Gordon Liddy|television film]]. In it, he states that he was willing to kill during the Ellsberg break-in, and that he once made plans with Hunt to kill journalist [[Jack Anderson (columnist)|Jack Anderson]], based on a literal interpretation of a Nixon White House statement, "we need to get rid of this Anderson guy".<ref name="Will">{{cite book|title=Will: The Autobiography of G. Gordon Liddy Gordon|date=July 15, 1991|publisher=St. Martins|isbn=978-0312924126|pages=[https://archive.org/details/willautobiograph00lidd/page/208 169,208-211]|url=https://archive.org/details/willautobiograph00lidd/page/208}}</ref><ref name="chapter11">{{cite news|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE5D8163CF931A25752C1A96E948260|title=The G. Gordon Liddy Story Continues With Chapter 11|newspaper=The New York Times|date=November 12, 1988|access-date=February 15, 2010|archive-date=June 17, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080617235656/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE5D8163CF931A25752C1A96E948260|url-status=live}}</ref>

In the early 1980s, Liddy joined forces with former [[Niles, Illinois]], policeman and co-owner of the Protection Group, Ltd., Thomas E. Ferraro Jr., to launch a private security and [[countersurveillance]] firm called G. Gordon Liddy & Associates.<ref>{{cite news |title=New 'Bugs' Make Spying Easier |url=http://www.bugsweeps.com/info/bus_week.html |work=Business Week |date=July 12, 1982 |access-date=March 16, 2007 |archive-date=May 19, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210519211647/http://www.bugsweeps.com/info/bus_week.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

<!--[[File:Liddy.jpg|thumb|right|180px|Liddy in 2004, wearing his [[Israel Defense Forces]] (IDF) paratroop wings]]-->
Liddy emerged to host his own talk radio show in 1992. Less than a year later, its popularity led to national syndication through [[Viacom (2005–2019)|Viacom]]'s [[Westwood One (1976–2011)|Westwood One]] Network, and through [[Radio America (United States)|Radio America]] in 2003. His radio show was [[radio syndication|syndicated]] in 160 markets, and was on both [[Sirius Satellite Radio]] and [[XM Satellite Radio]] stations in the United States.<ref name="sirius">[[Sirius Satellite Radio]], Weekends at 6:00am Eastern on Channel 144.</ref> Liddy's show ended on July 27, 2012.<ref name="rbr2012"/> He was also an occasional guest panelist for the [[Fox News Channel]].

In 1994 and 1995, Liddy repeatedly told listeners of his radio program to shoot federal law enforcement officers, giving instructions to aim for their heads.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://fair.org/home/liddys-lethal-advice/|website=FAIR|title=Liddy's Lethal Advice|date=July 1995|access-date=August 20, 2022|quote=Now if the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms comes to disarm you and they are bearing arms, resist them with arms. Go for a head shot; they’re going to be wearing bulletproof vests.|archive-date=August 20, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220820163547/https://fair.org/home/liddys-lethal-advice/|url-status=live}}</ref> In many of these statements he referenced shooting in self-defense. After the [[Oklahoma City bombing]], when [[President Clinton]] denounced the "many loud and angry voices" in conservative talk radio, Liddy responded that the head is a difficult target to hit and that he used pictures of the President and [[Hillary Clinton]] for target practice.<ref>{{cite news|last=McKerrow|first=Steve|title='Shoot for the head' remark earns Liddy an award|url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1995-05-18-1995138152-story.html|newspaper=The Baltimore Sun|access-date=August 20, 2022|date=May 17, 1995|archive-date=August 20, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220820163547/https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1995-05-18-1995138152-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

Liddy was sued for defamation in 1999 by Ida "Maxie" Wells, a secretary whose desk at the Democratic National Committee Headquarters at the Watergate was said to have been a target of the last Watergate break-in in order to find evidence related to an alleged prostitution ring kept in Wells' desk. Wells' suit accused Liddy of defamation.<ref>United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit Jul 28, 1999186 F.3d 505 (4th Cir. 1999),</ref> Liddy denied the allegation, and the judge dismissed the suit, commenting that "no 'reasonable jury' could have found in favor of the plaintiff."<ref>Civil Case No. JFM-97-946, "Memorandum" by District Judge J. Frederick Motz, March 19, 2001, U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland.</ref>

In addition to ''Will'', he wrote the nonfiction books, ''When I Was a Kid, This Was a Free Country'' (2002), and ''Fight Back! Tackling Terrorism, Liddy Style'' (2006, with his son,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/28/AR2005082800807.html|title=Start-Up|work=washingtonpost.com|date=August 29, 2005|access-date=February 15, 2010|archive-date=February 22, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190222204700/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/28/AR2005082800807.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Cdr. James G. Liddy, along with J. Michael Barrett and Joel Selanikio). He also published two novels: ''Out of Control'' (1979) and ''[[The Monkey Handlers]]'' (1990).<ref name="NYT obit"/>  Liddy was one of many people interviewed for the biography of [[Abbie Hoffman]], ''Steal this Dream'', by [[Larry Sloman|Larry "Ratso" Sloman]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Steal this Dream|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/larry-sloman/steal-this-dream/|first=Larry|last=Sloman|date=May 20, 2010|access-date=March 31, 2021|magazine=[[Kirkus Reviews]]|archive-date=February 6, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220206091323/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/larry-sloman/steal-this-dream/|url-status=live}}</ref>