Sure, Les. The Watergate coverup never really ended. About the closest Nixon came to coming clean was saying "Mistakes were made". And the tapes were never really made public either, until fairly recently. I posted some interesting revelations from the tapes here, see www2.techstocks.com , for a news story from a year ago. Nixon may or may not have ordered the original breakin, but he ordered other similar stuff.
The Iran-Contra coverup never really ended, and maybe it never will.
The bimbogate coverup lasted what, 9 months at the outside? It involved evasive testimony, maybe perjury, maybe not, in a politically motivated civil suit, now moribund. The suit had nothing to do with any Presidential action, and the evasive, maybe perjurous testimony had no bearing on the resolution of the case so far. But incomplete cooperation with the Starr inquisition now counts as not just perjury, but obstruction of justice, misprision of felony, conspiracy to obstruct justice, and who knows whatever other charges they'll come up with. Meanwhile, the House leadership has informed us that saying anything bad about Ken Starr is obstruction of justice too. Maybe they'll go for treason still.
But of course, that's wholly irrelevant to the preferred "facts" so objectively presented in the Starr report. Not to mention the "facts" in the form of the numerous other charges floating around here that Starr couldn't dig up any evidence on worth reporting. |
