{"id":14739,"date":"2012-06-21T12:33:36","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T16:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=14739"},"modified":"2012-06-22T09:32:00","modified_gmt":"2012-06-22T13:32:00","slug":"fast-and-furious-worse-than-watergate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/14739\/fast-and-furious-worse-than-watergate\/","title":{"rendered":"Fast and Furious Worse Than Watergate?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tim Stanley<\/a> of Britain\u2019s Telegraph explains how the argument can be made that President Barack Obama\u2019s role in the Fast and Furious scandal \u2013 if proven \u2013 could be worse than Richard Nixon\u2019s involvement in Watergate:<\/p>\n

A lot of conservatives are writing at the moment<\/a> that not only is Obama turning into Nixon Mark II, but Obama is worse because no one actually got killed during Watergate. The comparison is based on the myth that Nixon ordered the Watergate break in and that\u2019s what he eventually had to resign over. But that\u2019s not true. Nixon\u2019s guilt was in trying to pervert the course of justice by persuading the FBI to drop its investigation of the crime. Mistake number one, then, was to involve the White House in covering up the errors of a separate, autonomous political department. Mistake number two was that when Congress discovered that evidence about the scandal might be recorded on the White House bugging system, Nixon invoked executive privilege to protect the tapes. In both cases, it was the cover up that destroyed Tricky Dick \u2013 not the original crime.<\/p>\n

And, forty years later almost to the day, here we have Obama making the same mistake. Perhaps it\u2019s an act of chivalry to stand by Holder; perhaps it\u2019s an admission of guilt. Either way, it sinks the Oval Office ever further into the swamp that is Fast and Furious. Make no mistake about: Fast and Furious was perhaps the most shameful domestic law and order operation since the Waco siege<\/a>. It\u2019s big government at its worst: big, incompetent and capable of ruining lives.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tim Stanley of Britain\u2019s Telegraph explains how the argument can be made that President Barack Obama\u2019s role in the Fast and Furious scandal \u2013 if proven \u2013 could be worse than Richard Nixon\u2019s involvement in Watergate: A lot of conservatives are writing at the moment that not only is Obama turning into Nixon Mark II, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[143,1287,2847,1576,3642],"class_list":["post-14739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-barack-obama","tag-executive-privilege","tag-fast-and-furious","tag-richard-nixon","tag-watergate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14739"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14764,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14739\/revisions\/14764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}