"Today we face another Watergate,".......so says Sam Dash in an excellent article in NY Newday! Worth the read because he doesn't hold anything back. This particular quote in the article is worth our attention. Asscroft is worse than Mitchell. Will they do anything....including Murder to get Bush re-elected? (Dash is alerting us, warning us) The article is a chilling read in that his comparisons are so targeted.
EXCERPT:
" Watergate was much more than a bungled burglary of the Democratic National
Committee headquarters in the Watergate office building by agents of President
Nixon to obtain information that would help Nixon get re-elected in the
presidential election of 1972.
It was the culmination of a series of criminal acts authorized by Nixon and carried
out by his in-house secret espionage team to maintain his power, smother
dissent and punish his enemies. Former Attorney General John Mitchell, who
headed Nixon's re-election campaign and authorized the Watergate burglary and
wiretaps, called these criminal acts by the president and his aides "the White
House horrors," which had to be covered up if the president was to be re-elected.
The most serious horror was that Nixon and his aides believed that Nixon as
president had the absolute power and right to order these crimes to be
committed. Nixon told an interviewer, "When the president does it, it can't be
wrong."
Mitchell testified before the Senate Watergate Committee that he would have
"done anything" to get Richard Nixon re-elected. "Anything?" asked a senator.
"Would that include murder?" Mitchell puffed on his pipe and replied, "That's a
tough question, Senator."http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-vpdas113410046aug11,0,3084688.story?coll=ny-viewpoints-headlines
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