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Drew is a legend.

MY point was the use of disinformation and dirty tricks that Nixon was infamous for using.

Nixon is used as an example in the wiki entry, for example.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_tricks

[lentulusgracchus]

Funny they don't give Lyndon Johnson the credit he deserves for having invented the "dirty tricks" that were execrated by the Red-lovers at the WaPo and New York Slimes when Nixon used them.

Apparently the tricks are back in now ...... as long as conservatives are getting hosed with them.

And as all bien-pensant JournoList fans know, Rep. Issa's committee, by demanding documents from the Obama Justice Department, is ipso facto engaging in unfair "dirty tricks". Because Issa is dirty, the GOP is dirty, and everyone to the right of Leon Trotsky is dirty. And deserves People's Revolutionary Justice (one-pistol firing squad), if the truth be told. Just ask them.