DUPED by 1 minute! Salon: John Dean: More Vicious Than Tricky Dick

[kskiska]

Okay for you, Dudley!!! :evilgrin:

John Dean says the Bush team's leaks are even viler than his former boss's -- and that Plame and Wilson should file a civil suit.

By John W. Dean

I thought I had seen political dirty tricks as foul as they could get, but I was wrong. In blowing the cover of CIA agent Valerie Plame to take political revenge on her husband, Ambassador Joseph Wilson, for telling the truth, Bush's people have out-Nixoned Nixon's people. And my former colleagues were not amateurs by any means.

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But neither Colson nor Ehrlichman nor anyone else I knew while working at the Nixon White House had the necessary viciousness, or depravity, to attack the wife of a perceived enemy by employing potentially life-threatening tactics.

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Regardless of whether or not a special prosecutor is selected, I believe that Ambassador Wilson and his wife -- like the DNC official once did -- should file a civil lawsuit, both to address the harm inflicted on them, and, equally important, to obtain the necessary tools (subpoena power and sworn testimony) to get to the bottom of this matter. This will not only enable them to make sure they don't merely become yesterday's news; it will give them some control over the situation. In the case of the DNC's civil suit, Judge Charles Richey, a good Republican, handled it in a manner that was remarkably helpful to the Nixon reelection effort. But any judge getting a lawsuit from Wilson and Plame today would be watched a lot more carefully.

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http://salon.com/opinion/feature/2003/10/03/dean/index_np.html

[benfranklin1776]

1. Ah but Dean's analysis is so cogent that it bears repetition!

n/t

[Dudley_DUright]

2. Sorry about that

Krugman, Herbert and John Dean. A great night to be a editorial junkie. :-)

[realFedUp]

3. sorry, it is a good one

locking this dupe. rfu