connection. Of course, we don't have proof of a Rove/Gannon connection. That's the big issue/scandal, but I think it's instructive that the connection between the Nixon dirty tricks and the Jeff Gannon behavior seems so plausible:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3091072Nixon and his cronies had a little mixed bag of dirty-tricksters, planted stories, and double-crossers and some of that eventually came to light. Back when real journalists would follow a lead on a story, anyway.
At the time, these types like 'Jeff Gannon' were part of group of people called Nixon's "rat fuckers."
I hope a whole nest of these modern-day rat fuckers is exposed--and that Rove and his ilk were so sure that no one would dare call them on their tactics that they didn't bother to cover their tracks properly.
A dirty trail of rat shit that leads right to the White House.
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For more on Rove's direct connection to Nixon's ratfuckers:
"At 21, Rove dropped out of college and into politics, and became an early protégé of convicted Watergate player Don Segretti – the political operative who invented the term “ratfucking” in the first place. In that same tradition, Rove has been linked to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, attacks on John McCain’s mental health, and, back in Texas, the whispering that Democratic Governor Ann Richards was a lesbian. Rove remains, for many, a prime suspect in the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame, and even Republicans tend to reinforce his image as Bush’s Dark Lord. “He dominates a campaign,” Republican strategist David Weeks told The Washington Post. “Nothing ever happens that he’s not aware of.”"
http://www.lacitybeat.com/article.php?id=1316&IssueNum=...