MUST READ: If Watergate Happened Now

[steve2470]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3672516/site/newsweek/

With the GOP controlling congress, there'd be no Watergate hearings.

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The big reason Nixon didn't have to resign: the rise of Conservative Media, which features Fox, talk radio and a bunch of noisy partisans on the Internet and best-sellers list who almost never admit their side does anything wrong. (Liberals, bycontrast, are always eating their own.)
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"Liberals, by contrast, are always eating their own" - best sentence of the entire article. The national Democratic leaders have to learn to shut up in public.

[sam sarrha]

1. Actually... Nixon resigned to keep from being investegated by IRS

for all the bribe money..

[EVDebs]

2. Military spy ring connected to Woodward, the Moorer-Radford ring

shows Woodward's naval intell background, Ben Bradlee's intell background and friendship with Richard Helms, and the entire cavalcade of events of Watergate being driven by people all with intel backgrounds.

CIA burglars; CIA Mullen & Co. head Robert F. Bennett; CIA connected release of info about White House tapes by CIA's own Alexander Butterfield; the money (p. 36 in the footnote in All The President's Men) was never followed, even the House Banking Cmte.'s attempt to do so petered out (see Renata Adler's Dec 1976 Altantic article In search of the real Nixon scandal)...

You need me to draw you a picture ? The CIA wanted Nixon out...

Hey ! Maybe they can do it ONE MORE TIME !