SECRECY IS FOR LOSERS - MOYNIHAN
Hi Mephisto,
Here's a letter from John Dean, of Watergate fame, to Karl Rove:
historynewsnetwork.org
I'll let you read the original...
Here's what Media Whores Online had to say about it:
JOHN DEAN'S OPEN LETTER TO KARL ROVE
In an open letter to Karl Rove, ex-Nixon White House counsel and, in time, Watergate hero, expresses bafflement at Rove's apparent unwillingness to learn from Richard Nixon's high crimes and misdemeanors:
It's unimaginable that the Bush Administration would want to risk repeating the mistakes of the Nixon presidency, yet the continuing insistence on secrecy by your White House is startlingly Nixonian. I'm talking about everything from stiffing Congressional requests from information and witnesses, to employing an executive order to demolish the 1978 law providing public access to presidential papers, to forcing the Government Accounting Office to go to Court to obtain information about how the White House is spending tax money when creating a pro-energy industry Vice Presidential task force. The Bush Administration apparently seeks to reverse the post-Watergate trend of open government.
Of course, Bush's many friends in the media, led by David Gergen, are known to regard Dean as a fink who betrayed his friends. They apparently regard the loyal convict and openly fascistic G. Gordon Liddy as the true hero of the Watergate affair. And the likes of Tim "Phineas T. Bluster" Russert continue to give their buddy Liddy a huge audience for spreading his own smears of John Dean.
Not surprising any of that, considering how many of the leading Bush apparatchiks -- including Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, William Safliar and, not least, Poppy Bush -- were also Nixon apparatchiks. And considering how the likes of Bluster Russert treat this Nixon-Bush gang with such sickening sycophancy.
In fact, Poppy, (whom Nixon chose as national party chair in the midst of the Watergate scandal), was virtually the last unindicted person in America in the summer of 1974 , outside of the Nixon family and the quixotic Rabbi Baruch Korff, who insisted that Nixon had done nothing wrong and should not step down.
Thereafter, Poppy surrounded himself with ex-Nixon fat cats who funded the notorious Committee to Re-Elect the President (or CREEP) in his own later runs for the presidency.
"Nixonian"? John Dean, the Watergate hero, knows it when he sees it, if anyone alive still has the power.
And he sees "Nixonian" written all over the Bush-Rove White House.
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