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Watergate Times Three
The American Thinker ^ | Robert J Mack

Posted on 09/19/2011 2:30:52 AM PDT by opentalk

You think Richard Nixon's presidency was the worst scandal ever? Well, so far, anyway. It all started with a tape holding a door open at the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C., discovered by a security guard 39 years ago on June 17, 1972. That discovery started a sinister chapter in America's history, fueled by the fervent investigative work of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein of The Washington Post and ending with the president, Richard M. Nixon, exiting the White House in disgrace on August 9, 1974.

A similar Watergate scandal could erupt for Barack Obama. The only difference is that there may be three of them.

The insane Solyndraloan, the LightSquared cronyism, and the Operation Fast and Furious gun-running debacle have all come into America's consciousness at the same time.

How could the government invest in a solar panel start-up that had no prospects for any kind of success, and to the tune of over 500 billion dollars? Why would a four-star Air Force general say that the White House tried to pressure him to change his testimony before the House Armed Services Strategic Forces Subcommittee to make it more favorable to a company tied to a large Democratic donor? Whatwere directors at the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration, and the ATF thinking when they persuaded gun dealers to allow more than 2,000 firearms to get in the hands of drug lords in Mexico, resulting in over 200 deaths?

These are questions that demand answers.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: atf; borderguardmurder; doj; gunrunner; lightsquared; mexicandrugcartels; nationalsecurity; obama; rico; solyndra; specialprosecutor
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1 posted on 09/19/2011 2:30:56 AM PDT by opentalk
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To: opentalk

The only difference is that the Washington Post and by inference all its sister papers are profoundly disinterested in uncovering anything that could prove embarrassing to their favored one. If any Washington Post reporter today showed anything like the tenacity and initiative of Woodward and Bernstein digging into current White House illegalities, that reporter would be reassigned to the Obits at lightning speed, and if that didn’t get the message across, he or she would be fired and blackballed.


2 posted on 09/19/2011 2:41:02 AM PDT by John Valentine
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To: opentalk
500 billion dollars

bad enough without making it 1000 x worse.I've seen a lot of people make this mistake recently. It's as though "millions" seems so insignificant, the mind takes a quantum leap.

3 posted on 09/19/2011 2:42:58 AM PDT by gusopol3
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To: opentalk

People seem to forget the destruction of all the car dealerships that were held by Republicans while keeping all Democratic-owned dealerships. This is more of the same, it’s just the timing is now two years later and Obamania has worn off. The next administration should launch a full investigation and prosecute without any presidential pardon. This is far worst than Richard Nixon.


4 posted on 09/19/2011 2:43:17 AM PDT by HarleyD
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To: John Valentine

The Washington Compost may become interested, however, if they conclude early enough that President Obama is unelectable.


5 posted on 09/19/2011 2:43:25 AM PDT by soxfan
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To: John Valentine

Actually Susan Schmidt did a pretty good job on exposing Whitewater. Hmm, I wonder whatever happened to her.


6 posted on 09/19/2011 2:44:40 AM PDT by gusopol3
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To: John Valentine
If any Washington Post reporter today showed anything like the tenacity and initiative of Woodward and Bernstein digging into current White House illegalities, that reporter would be reassigned to the Obits at lightning speed, and if that didn’t get the message across, he or she would be fired and blackballed.

Or subjects of the Obits.

7 posted on 09/19/2011 2:44:56 AM PDT by mountn man (Happiness is not a destination, its a way of life.)
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To: gusopol3
It's as though "millions" seems so insignificant, the mind takes a quantum leap.

The new math ala Barky.

8 posted on 09/19/2011 2:51:17 AM PDT by livius
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To: opentalk

I think there is absolutely no chance of any of this getting investigated by the press or by Congress. There may be a few modest inquiries (such as Issa’s investigation) but they’re not going to attract much attention outside of FR and nothing will come of them.

It is quite possible that a lot of the Dems are worried about Bambi’s election chances and hope that something will happen to prevent him from running again, but I think there’s another factor here, and that’s fear. Obama has shown himself to be completely ruthless in destroying people and institutions.

In addition, this is the guy with the nuclear codes and full command of the US military - but absolutely no loyalty to the United States. I think they all know that the only focus of Obama’s loyalty is himself, and that he would turn on us in an instant if he felt threatened.


9 posted on 09/19/2011 2:56:53 AM PDT by livius
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The post today is part of the DNC and administration (imo). They feature articles by Erza Klein who started Journolist, that made a coordinated broad media effort to bury Reverend Wright news during 2008.

Klein also claims the Constitution is outdated, it is impossible to understand because it is over 100 years old.

10 posted on 09/19/2011 2:58:31 AM PDT by opentalk
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To: opentalk

500 billion?


11 posted on 09/19/2011 2:58:31 AM PDT by ballplayer
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Nixon’s coverup after the fact of a botched burglary of a political opponent’s office, which was his undoing, pales in comparison to today’s scandals. Gun running, obstruction of justice, witness intimidation, money laundering, overstepping constitutional constraints, collusion, bribery through influence peddling... the list just goes on and on. No, Nixon was a piker. Bambi and company should be in Canon City, Colorado, getting meals through a slot in a steel door.


12 posted on 09/19/2011 3:01:35 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: opentalk
SolarGate...
13 posted on 09/19/2011 3:01:35 AM PDT by taildragger (( Palin / Mulally 2012 ))
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To: ballplayer
Should read, over $500 million
14 posted on 09/19/2011 3:03:51 AM PDT by opentalk
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To: HarleyD
The next administration should launch a full investigation and prosecute without any presidential pardon.

Yeah! Just like W did!

15 posted on 09/19/2011 3:04:23 AM PDT by Roccus (Obama & Holder LLP, Procurers of fine arms to the most discerning drug lords (202) 456-1414)
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To: livius
He still has quite a bit of time remaining in office. There is probably much more of the same unexposed.

He seems to have little regard for national security .

16 posted on 09/19/2011 3:12:28 AM PDT by opentalk
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“A similar Watergate scandal could erupt for Barack Obama. The only difference is that there may be three of them.”

Ummm - the difference is that B0 is black, or at least halfway so. Until the Pubbies are willing to face that bogeyman, they are doomed. They must be willing to endure the remonstrations of the intellectual giants of the Grievance and Reparations Industries such as Big Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and the gerrymandered gentry of Congress (SJL comes to mind). I don’t think they have the cojones to do it.


17 posted on 09/19/2011 3:13:11 AM PDT by tgusa (Gun control: deep breath, sight alignment, squeeze the trigger......)
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To: John Valentine

I am afraid you are exactly right there. If the stories are going to go anywhere, we have to make sure that at least the Conservative press covers it. Combined with sites like FR we’re too big to ignore completely now.


18 posted on 09/19/2011 3:15:14 AM PDT by Ronin (If we were serious about using the death penalty as a deterrent, we would bring back public hangings)
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To: HarleyD

“The next administration should launch a full investigation and prosecute without any presidential pardon.”

If the fools in the “anybody but Obama” crowd get their way and convince people to “unite” for the next globalist establishment RINO, that will NOT happen.

Only a true reformer like Palin will fix this corruption. Dubya failed most egregiously.


19 posted on 09/19/2011 3:23:42 AM PDT by MikeSteelBe (Austrian Hitler was as the Halfrican Hitler does.)
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To: opentalk

What border patrol agents did Richard Nixon get killed?


20 posted on 09/19/2011 3:37:31 AM PDT by The Duke
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