More vicious than Tricky Dick {by John Dean}

[bobthedrummer]

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.

You don't have to subsribe to discuss this. I never thought there would be a worse President than Richard M. Nixon-I was wrong. To what depths this crew will go in terms of criminality is anyone's guess.

I think that this spook war could end up in impeachable territory-but we've all been wrong about that in the past 2 and a half years.
What do you think about the Plame outing?

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

[opihimoimoi]

1. Having followed it start to the end... I believe these guys are FAR MORE

DANGEROUS and I concur, More VILE TOO.

These Bushy guys play dirty, sneaky, and bend the rules to fit their take on things.

Its not "Gov't FOR the People, Its Gov't for THEM

[Spazito]

2. This is a MUST read!

I even broke down and watched the ad for the one-day subscription and it was well worth it.

[LittleApple81]

3. I am quoting the paragraphs about the suit. This is important.

snip...

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.

While I have made no effort to examine all the potential causes of action that Wilson and Plame might file, several come to mind. For example, given the fact that this leak was reportedly an effort to harm them, a civil action for intentional infliction of emotional distress could be appropriate. (Because I am not aware of their residence -- the District of Columbia, Maryland or Virginia -- I will only state the law generally.)


more.....

The article is a long read but VERY INTERESTING.

[LittleApple81]

4. KICK N/T

[Junkdrawer]

5. Kick

:kick:

[mlawson]

6. Yes. But the people around Nixon were pretty scary, too.

The fact that they are either dead now, or permanently neutralized makes them seem less dangerous.

Hmmm. KKKRove vs H.R. Haldemen... I dunno.

[Ivory_Tower]

7. Some are back

Some of the members of the current gang were young bucks in the Nixon administration, if I'm not mistaken. Didn't I read somewhere that Rove worked in the Nixon campaign? I assume he would have been a young, lew-level worker, but I would also expect that he learned some tricks of the trade there.

On edit: A-ha! I wasn't imagining it after all:

The opening of a 11/1/2002 article:

"He's America's Joseph Goebbels. As a 21-year old Young Republican in Texas, Karl Rove not only pimped for Richard Nixon's chief political dirty tricks strategist Donald Segretti but soon caught the eye of the incoming Republican National Committee Chairman, George H. W. Bush. Rove's dirty tricks on behalf of Nixon's 1972 campaign catapulted Rove onto the national stage. "