[Sherman Logan]

In Felt’s (partial) defense, illegal wiretaps against the Weathermen were aimed at revolutionaries intent on committing violence on the American people and government.

The Watergate wiretaps were aimed at political opponents.

There is a moral, if perhaps not a legal, difference.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

You're right.

Huge difference.

[tupac]

Felt fades away, a rat-f*ck weasel to the end.

[RKV]

I believe the question (which I am not sure can be answered truthfully today) is “Were the wiretaps aimed at finding foreign links to domestic political campaigns?” In light of Obama’s foreign credit card financing of his presidential bit, which is illegal, and out in the open, this may seem naive. I guess there was a time when such things were not accepted as normal.

[an amused spectator]

The Watergate wiretaps were aimed at political opponents.

Political opponents who were emboldened by their silent coup against Nixon to the point of direct action against the American government [the Democrat media's shadow government advertising campaign against the war in Iraq and Afghanistan] and the placing of a Muslim whose mentor is a Weatherman in the presidency...

Whole lot of difference there... **grin**

[ETL]

In Felt’s (partial) defense, illegal wiretaps against the Weathermen were aimed at revolutionaries intent on committing violence on the American people and government. The Watergate wiretaps were aimed at political opponents. There is a moral, if perhaps not a legal, difference.

"Daniel Ellsberg (born April 7, 1931) is a former American military analyst employed by the RAND Corporation who precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of government decision-making about the Vietnam War, to The New York Times and other newspapers."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ellsberg
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So what is Daniel Ellsberg up to today? He is an endorser of the Revolutionary Communist Party movement "World Can't Wait"! In other words, he is of the same slime as Bill Ayers.

Click on the 'World Can't Wait' link just below and see: "Endorsers of the Call to Drive Out the Bush Regime Include" You may recognize a few other names as well, including the democrat chair of the House Judiciary Committee, John Conyers Jr. Conyers' name appears right after Ward Churchill's.
http://worldcantwait.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2538&Itemid=2
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World Can't Wait--Drive Out the Bush Regime is a Maoist-revolutionary movement organized by the Revolutionary Communist Party. (scroll down the list that appears (after clicking link) to find the World Can't Wait organization --rwor.org is the website of the Revolutionary Communist Party):
http://rwor.org/a/rwlink/links.htm
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From David Horowitz's FrontpageMag.com /DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
Profile: World Can't Wait (WCW)

*Revolutionary communist movement that stages protests against the Bush administration

*Organizes college and high-school students

*Founded in June 2005 by Charles Clark Kissinger, a longtime leader of the Revolutionary Communist Party

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7213
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From the website of the Revolutionary Communist Party (revcom.us or rwor.org) :
"Create Public Opinion, Seize Power: We are preparing minds and organizing forces for the time when there is a major crack in the system, whenever it comes and wherever it comes from: an opening that makes it possible to bring the future Revolutionary Army of the Proletariat (R.A.P.) into the field and wage a revolutionary armed struggle that actually has a chance of winning. And we have said that building our party itself is the most important part of organizing forces for revolution. This is true now, and it is true looking forward to the creation of that future R.A.P. and the waging of that armed struggle.":
http://revcom.us/a/v20/1000-1009/1000/barw.htm

[ETL]

"As a response to the leaks, the Nixon administration began a campaign against further leaks and against Ellsberg personally. Aides Egil Krogh and David Young under John Ehrlichman's supervision created the 'White House Plumbers,' which would later lead to the Watergate burglaries."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ellsberg#Fallout

[weegee]

The Watergate wiretaps may have been a prostitution investigation by Dean with no political motive at all.