[piytar]

Threaten, intimidate, and lie. Just another day in our thugocracy...

[Graneros]

“Threaten, intimidate, and lie.”

Try this instead:
Threaten, intimidate, then lie and deny.

[tanknetter]

Threaten, intimidate, and lie. Just another day in our thugocracy...

Everything old is new again. There were well-sourced rumors in the mid-1990s that the Clinton Administration threatened to yank the WH press creds of any reporter (and that reporter's organization) that ran a story about Al Gore III getting busted for drugs on the grounds of the National Cathedral/St. Albans.