John Dean Advises Wilson and Plame to SUE The Bush Administration

[Noordam]

Myself I like the sounds of words like (subpoena power and sworn testimony) :evilgrin:

While you can pay to see the whole article the front page has enough for me.

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

More vicious than Tricky Dick
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.

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By John W. Dean



Oct. 3, 2003 |

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

[diplomats]

1. Apparently they're taking his advice

The Wash. Post reports they've hired an attorney.

[Noordam]

4. Now to get * under oath..... nt

[nini]

2. Whoa.. Dean oughta know too!

these guys are gonna make the Tricky Dick days seem like a picnic in the park.

[Booberdawg]

3. Dang! I'm so tired of missing out on good articles in Salon that I finally

subscribed. This one just pushed me over the edge to do it.

[eleny]

5. As I was reading his Salon piece last night...

I was imagining him sitting thtere and penning his advice. Quietly and with deliberation. Lovely.

Guys like him are suppposed to be advising the Repubs. The way I figure it, Dean must think he paid his dues with time in the joint. So, he can do and say whatever he damn well pleases. It sure was a great and soothing read.

[rucky]

6. Novak should be named in the suit, too

...and every paper that published his column. I'd like to hear the media explain themselves under oath.

[TacticalPeek]

7. Really.

I tire of this crap about protecting the First Amendment, or the statute provisions exempting journalists. Extend it out the way its being done, and I could be a North Korean agent with a few years of publishing some rag, and then just list out a hundred agents' names, addresses and family. And I'm supposed to be able to just stick my tongue out at the fibbies? Gimme a break.

Like George Washington seeing that Benedict Arnold's got a reporter's notebook in his pocket, so its "OK, Bennie, you can go, sorry 'bout that."? Christ!