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Rdtf
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 Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2005 12:17 pm Post subject: Blumenthal: Bush Presidency at High Stage of 'Nixonism' |
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from Drudge: (and our friends at The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1502532,00.html
| Quote: | Nixon's empire strikes back
Bush's imperial project has succeeded by learning the chief lesson of Watergate - muzzle the press.
Sidney Blumenthal
Thursday June 9, 2005
The Guardian
The unveiling of the identity of Deep Throat - Mark Felt, the former deputy director of the FBI - seemed affirm the story of Watergate as the triumph of the lone journalist supported from the shadows by a magically appearing secret source. Shazam! The outlines of the fuller story we now know, thanks not only to Felt's selfunmasking but to disclosures the Albany Times Union of upstate New York, unreported so far by any major outlet. Felt was not working as "a disgruntled maverick ... but rather as the leader of a clandestine group" of three other high-level agents to control the story by collecting intelligence and leaking it. For more than 30 years the secrecy around Deep Throat diverted attention to who Deep Throat was rather than what Deep Throat was - a covertFBI operation in which Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward was almost certainly an unwitting asset.
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GM Strong
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Good ol' Sid Vicious.   This is the Hildebeast's chief pit bull attack dog. 
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I B Squidly
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"What's all this fuss about Lewinsky? She didn't do anything I didn't do!"
-Sydney Blumenthal
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ocsparky101
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Location: Allen Park. Michigan
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All this fuss about Deep Throat needs to be cleared up. It is creating alot of confusion. I will try to clear it up.
Deep Throat I - Linda Lovelace
Deep Throat II - Mark Felt
Deep Throat III- Monica Lewinsky |
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GM Strong
Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy
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Clinton Legacy - Deep Throat III
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Tom Poole
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Location: America
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Other legacies:
Slick Willy? Impeachment
Slick Willy? Cigar
Slick Willy? Blue Dress
Slick Willy? Disbarred
Slick Willy? Kathleen Willey
Slick Willy? Juanita Broaddrick
Slick Willy? Paula Jones
Slick Willy? Vince Foster
Jimmy Carter? Operation Eagle Claw
Jimmy Carter? Hostages
Jimmy Carter? Panama Canal
Jimmy Carter? Vietnam Pardons
Jimmy Carter? Stealth Secret Leak
Jimmy Carter? One Term
Jimmy Carter? Appeasement
Teddy Kennedy? Chappaquiddick
Teddy Kennedy? Booze
Teddy Kennedy? Obesity
Teddy Kennedy? Socialism
And many more.
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