Watergate Proves That Even Presidents Will Break Laws To Achieve Goals

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by Jason Leopold

Tuesday’s revelation that W. Mark Felt, the former number two man at the FBI, was the anonymous source known as Deep Throat, who helped Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein unravel the Watergate scandal in the pages of the Washington Post 30 years ago should be seen as an important reminder that even the leader of the free world can be devious, corrupt and dishonest.
Some things never change.

The parallels between the Bush and Nixon administrations are eerily familiar. Both bullied the press, were/are highly secretive, obsessed over leaks, engage(d) in massive cover-ups and quickly branded aides as disloyal if they dared to raise questions about the President’s policies.

The Washington Post, the very paper that is credited with forcing Nixon’s resignation, summed it up perfectly in a Nov. 25, 2003 story on the similarities between the two administrations.

“Bush… structures his White House much as Nixon did. Nixon governed largely with four other men: Henry A. Kissinger, H.R. Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman and Charles Colson. This is not unlike the "iron triangle" of aides who led Bush's campaign and the handful of underlings now -- Cheney, chief of staff Andrew H. Card Jr., national security adviser Condoleezza Rice and communications director Dan Bartlett -- who are in on most top decisions. Nixon essentially ended the tradition of powerful Cabinets in favor of a few powerful White House aides -- a model Bush has followed.”

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http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0601-29.htm

Its a dead on assessment of the news media and what constitutes a scandal.

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1. How many of these same threads are posted here on the board

[marmar]

2. And the irony is...

what W. Bush has done is FAR worse than anything that happened during Watergate, but he's in no danger of being impeached.

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3. There HAS to be a slip up somehow.

I think most of us will all go insane and implode if something doesn't happen and soon!

[marmar]

4. I hope so...

But what more has to happen for someone other than John conyers to do something. The Downing Street papers prove that they doctored up a war, they've lied to Congress, they've lied to the American people - why isn't everyone as mad as we are?