Obama: We’re working on gun control “under the radar”
That was my first thought!!!
Fast & Furious has treason writ large all over it. I want to see the racist infesting the whitehouse found guilty of treason and walk the 13 steps.
Watergate occurred because Nixon and his people believed someone on the Democrat side had opened up an illegal independent channel of communication with the North Vietnam negotiators in Paris. Nixon believed it most likely was someone in the McGovern camp(his opponent in the upcoming)and that if such evidence existed it would most likely be at Watergate offices the plumbers targeted. If found it would provide the smoking gun needed to sway the pending election Nixon’s way. While wrong about the McGovern camp, Nixon was right about the independent illegal channel of communication with the North, and that it was someone from the Democrat side. Evidence in recent years has emerged which strongly indicates it was a young anti war protestor who was in Paris at the time and had unexplained trips to Moscow who had opened up such direct illegal communications with the North...on behalf of what over time proved to be his prime political benefactor, Senator Ted Kennedy.
In the end, Nixon’s motives were to secure a peace settlement that would not throw South Vietnam to the wolves. As years past top North Vietnamese government officials and negotiators admitted every time they were on the verge of seeing not choice but to agree to the hard demands being made by Kissinger because of the pressure of unrelenting bombing campaigns being carried on major targets in the North, our domestic anti war activists always seem to inspire them to hold out until they got the terms they ended up with...which essentially neutered and abandoned the South. The actual direct and consequential result which objectively has to be laid at the feet of the antiwar activists is that millions eventually lost their lives all over South East Asia. Millions!
Motives aside, Nixon and his private operatives broke the law and deserved what they got. That said, far from being a private venture, Fast and Furious was conceived and implemented at the behest of an official government agency which involved forcing private businesses to break the law. Knowing beforehand that the unavoidable consequence would be that some people would die.
Yes indeed no one died in Watergate.
Comrade obama made Watergate look trivial even before F&F.