From out the mists of history, Watergate figures weigh in on Felonygate and this administration’s total lack of credibility: Nixon counsel John Dean calls the Bushies worse than his old employers, while Daniel Ellsberg argues that the Plumbers are back. Says Ellsberg of the Plame situation, “I see an almost identical pattern here [between his own experience and Plame’s]. Really, I don’t know of any analogy so close in the 30 years between now and then. This is not an everyday occurrence.” In related news, it turns out that the Bushies have lied again — this time, Wolfowitz & co. drastically overstated the health of the Iraqi oil industry, despite a Pentagon report to the contrary, so as to minimize the cost of Iraqi reconstruction for American taxpayers. Typical.
Tag: Watergate
Memory CREEP.
In an interview for a PBS documentary airing next week, former presidential aide Jeb Stuart Magruder now says Nixon personally authorized the Watergate break-in. Historian Stanley Kutler for one doesn’t buy it, and Magruder’s reasoning for his silence does sound a bit bogus. But you never know…
Deep in Right Field.
Slate‘s Timothy Noah revisits the the latest theories on Deep Throat’s identity. The newest Most Likely Candidate: Nixon aide Fred Fielding.