Hillary Clinton is presented as a “secretive, paranoid politician” while comparing her with former President Richard Nixon.
“At least Nixon was right about one thing,” the narrator says before showing footage of Nixon. “People have got to know whether their president is a crook.”
The seriousness and potential consequences of 'Emailgate" to our national security far outweigh any possible consequences of Watergate in severity.
And THAT is “THE ART OF THE DEAL!”
No mention that PIAPS was kicked off the Watergate committee due to unethical behavior.
NYT “paper of record?” HAH!
See the Hillary Clinton has a Richard Nixon problem ad:
http://freebeacon.com/politics/american-crossroads-clinton-nixon/
And she got dismissed because of lying and pushing unconstitutional measures.
The fact that the New York Times has to explain “Why Clinton’s Emails Matter” to it’s readership shows you just how clueless they are.
Hey Timmy....she was FIRED from the Watergate Committee because she was trying to keep Nixon from being able to DEFEND himself!! Even the Democrat that fired her said she was a LIAR!!
Actually, the more I read it, the more it pissed me off. Watergate is ONLY SIGNIFICANT in the sense that it was a valuable lesson to corrupt people Obama, both Clintons, and all their cabal subsector ghouls. It taught them how a simple break in could steamroll into a crisis. AND! The main takeaway from it was NEVER GET CAUGHT. Cover your trails - emails are far worse than recordings (that 18 minutes). Can you imagine the megaton equivalent these emails represent so far in excess of that 18 minutes and the cover up?
He talks about the ‘horrible’ reputation of the FBI of some collusion with the administration. My opinion of the FBI then was far better than it is now, that’s for damned sure. No Ruby Ridge, no Waco, no BLM controversy, no FBI/ATF criminality (IMO). Much simpler.
So today we have an FBI that won’t do its job (nothing official is being done wrt indictment and prosecution - everything is kept “Hillary-free” and the entire executive branch is doing nothing but protecting her).
I wouldn’t give you a plugged nickel for the FBI right now. Not until they do their job or resign, walk out and go tell the truth - everywhere they can. I haven’t seen that yet.
Frankly, I don’t wanna hear Watergate any more. I want to hear a boatload of FBI agents, NYPD officials, DoJ personnel stand up on TV en masse or individually and TELL THE DAMN TRUTH, and I don’t need the NYT to tell me the significance of Watergate, blah, blah, blah.
The libs are right, Emailgate is no Watergate. Watergate was just a third-rate burglary. Emailgate not only endangered national security and put our agents’ lives at risk all over the world, it also involves a conspiracy to destroy evidence and obstruct justice to prevent the exposure of a massive influence-peddling scheme at the highest levels of government, foreign infiltration of US policy, and an international charity fraud that ripped off desperate poor people from Haiti to Colombia. Watergate was a tempest in a teapot dome compared to the massive manure pile of lies and corruption the Clintons piled up.
Really? She was booted off the staff by the democrats because of ethical violations. I couldn't get past this sentence.
The irony of it all is that Watergate began as Nixon’s concern( some cynics would say paranoia) of the NYTs publishing of stolen top secret Pentagon documents which they received from mole Daniel Ellsberg. Remember these d9ocuents concerned the LBJ Administration, not his.
In Hillary’s case it is about her venal and selfish disregard for classified documents and federal law in order to hide her official conduct.
Yes, Nixon taped WH conversations in order to preserve them for the historical record, but when they were subpoenaed by Congress he didn’t destroy them. He turned them over; first the transcripts ( expletives deleted) , and later the tapes themselves which contained the so-called “smoking-gun” which sealed his fate.
Hillary’s illegal server was set up for reasons exactly the opposite. .to hide her official communications from Congressional oversight and the public record.
Nixon, in retrospect, while no saint, was far more decent a human being than either of the Clintons.
Watergate did not put national security at risk. Hillary did exactly that when she took classified information and put it on an unsecured server.
Also, the reason it's not a bigger scandal is because of the press. Unlike Watergate, the press is not interested in finding the truth. They only cover the e-mail scandal so that they can launch attacks on Hillary's accusers.
What’s really ironic is Hillary was fired from the watergate investigation team for lying and her actions now make Nixon look like a piker.
That is correct. Watergate did not involve playing free and loose with National Security like Emailgate has. So quit your spin lackey.
For being one of the brightest stars in the firmament for over 40 years, she’s gotta be one of the stupidest politicians whose breath still shows up on a mirror.
NYTimes fails again.
The Clintons redid the equivalent of the purported Nixon misdeeds every 3-4 months...again, and again.
Many offenses no one else has done.
I stopped reading at “among the brightest”.
By whose account? Hers? I was paying pretty close attention back then. I definitely thought Nixon had to go. But I don't believe I EVER heard of Hillary Rodham or Hillary Clinton back then.
I didn't even know then she was fired from the committee for serial lying. But I do now.
ML/NJ
I have to say. The emails may equal Watergate. They are as bad or worse because they expose national secrets. But the true parallel is Donna Brazile and the debate questions. Watergate is about the illegal break in to get political information during a campaign. Then there was the cover up and the tapes that got erased.
Its the same. We have election theft of campaign information, the debate questions. We have cover up. We have destruction of evidence. The nominee knew about the crime and did not disclose it. In fact her senior staff knew about the crime as well, same as Watergate.
As far as I am concerned this is Watergate if we only include the debate questions and Donna Brazile. When you add the Clinton Foundation, Teneo (you have to talk about Teneo its really how the Clintons got rich) and Top Secret emails you are going way passed Watergate. Nixon was not as big a crook as Hillary.
Really?? Getting our ambassador killed was running the State Department well?? And then the author attempts to shift blame for her choices towards her inner circle?