"Trail Of Lies & Deception Has Put Cheney On Same Path That Led To Nixon's Impeachment" (USA Today)

[kpete]

McClellan admission evokes memories of Nixon era
By DeWayne Wickham

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The seedy path taken by Bush's aides looks a lot like one taken by another White House.

In 1971, a group of advisers close to Richard Nixon decided to go after people they considered opponents of that Republican president. The people whose names made it onto that "opponents' list" were targeted for retribution in much the same way that the Bush administration went after Wilson. As Nixon White House counsel John Dean said at the time, "We can use the available federal machinery to screw our political enemies." And, in fact, Nixon's henchmen tried to use the Internal Revenue Service to do just that.

Bush's minions took a similar road. They used information secretly gained from the CIA to strike at one of Bush's "enemies" — and to publicly use the president's press secretary to deny any role in this act of retribution.

When the House Judiciary Committee voted to impeach Nixon in 1974 (he resigned before the full House could vote on the resolution), it accused him of, among other things, trying to misuse the IRS to attack his enemies — and using his subordinates to make "false or misleading public statements for the purpose of deceiving the people of the United States" about the White House involvement.

While there is still little evidence to suggest that Bush was knowingly involved in this coverup, the evidence against Cheney is piling up. It came out during Libby's trial that the vice president authorized him to leak Plame Wilson's identity to journalists. And now we hear from McClellan that Cheney duped him into telling other reporters that the White House didn't have its hands in this matter. This trail of lies and deception has put Cheney on the same path that led to Nixon's impeachment. And it may yet cause the vice president to tumble into the same political abyss.

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http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20071127/opcomtues.art0.htm

[TechBear_Seattle]

1. Except that Congress had the gonads to impeach Nixon

Meanwhile, Cheney and other members of the Junta get a free pass, a glass of lemonade and a slobbering kiss on their collective backside from the current Congress.

:puke:

[CorpGovActivist]

2. When It Makes It into the McPaper...

... maybe we're seeing the beginning of the end.

- Dave

[lpbk2713]

3. Not only does Cheneyburton surpass Tricky Dick (Nixon) in lies and deceit ....

he has a level of arrogance Nixon never even imagined.

[Vanje]

4. Impeachment belongs on the table nt