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Lars39

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8. Why spy on Senator Howard Baker? Here ya go:

Reply to Nuclear Unicorn (Reply #4)

Thu Sep 26, 2013, 11:31 AM

Sep 2013

Per wiki:
"In 1973 and 1974, Baker was also the influential ranking minority member of the Senate committee, chaired by Senator Sam Ervin, that investigated the Watergate scandal. Baker is famous for having asked aloud, "What did the President know and when did he know it?", a question given him by his counsel and former campaign manager, future U.S. Senator Fred Thompson."

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Art Buchwald; humorist, subversive threat?!?! [View all] Nuclear Unicorn Sep 2013 OP

Bwahaaaa, I like your style. I agree, it couldn't possibly happen today..bwahaaaaaaaaaaaa monmouth3 Sep 2013 #1

Buchwald opposed the War for Profit in Vietnam. Octafish Sep 2013 #2

LOL! pinboy3niner Sep 2013 #3

In the rest of the article the reporter notes how even a pro-war GOPer senator was being monitored. Nuclear Unicorn Sep 2013 #4

I lived in McLean at the time, and it was natural for the locals to to attend :) pinboy3niner Sep 2013 #7

Why spy on Senator Howard Baker? Here ya go: Lars39 Sep 2013 #8

So the NSA isn't really defending Americans, it's defending Nuclear Unicorn Sep 2013 #9

Well said! Lars39 Sep 2013 #10

Used to read Art every day on the bus to work in D.C. oldandhappy Sep 2013 #5

LBJ, father of the Great Society, was a "neo-con" ProSense Sep 2013 #6

They are very concerned about their own security The Second Stone Sep 2013 #11