"When I was in the White House, if somebody was working at Langley, they were fair game" - Charles Colson
Back in the day, when Richard Nixon and his band of 'Plumbers' were burglarizing, smearing and obstructing justice, that administration didn't shy away either from those in the CIA who thought of getting in their way. And that is where Dick Cheney, working in the Nixon White House, cut his teeth on vindictiveness for anyone who dared to challenge his authority.
Unfortunately for the new gang of 'Plumbers', the similarities with the Nixon regime are as Charles Colson says, 'ironic', and hopefully, the similarities will continue with the justice that is served.
I guess we'll find out more about that today...
Media Matters
The October 26 edition of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes featured the analysis of Townhall.com columnist Charles W. Colson, who served as special counsel to President Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1973. After noting that CIA operative Valerie Plame was working at the agency's headquarters in the Langley neighborhood of McLean, Virginia, when her identity was allegedly leaked, Colson said: "When I was in the White House, if somebody was working at Langley, they were fair game."
Colson was indicted in connection with the Watergate cover-up. The charges were dropped when he subsequently pleaded guilty to obstructing justice by disseminating information from the FBI file of Daniel Ellsberg in an effort to influence the outcome of Ellsberg's trial in connection with leaking the Pentagon Papers. Colson served seven months in prison.
On Hannity & Colmes, Colson noted that the Plame investigation "is very much like the Watergate [case], in the sense that it wasn't the original crime in Watergate, that is, the break-in to the Democratic headquarters, it was the cover-up. I hope and pray this isn't so." Later in the segment, he explained to co-host Sean Hannity: "But the other thing that's ironic about this, Sean, is that I went to prison for disseminating an FBI file attempting to smear Daniel Ellsberg. So there are stark similarities in this case."
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"When I was in the White House, if somebody was working at Langley, they were fair game" - Charles Colson
Back in the day, when Richard Nixon and his band of 'Plumbers' were burglarizing, smearing and obstructing justice, that administration didn't shy away either from those in the CIA who thought of getting in their way. And that is where Dick Cheney, working in the Nixon White House, cut his teeth on vindictiveness for anyone who dared to challenge his authority.
Unfortunately for the new gang of 'Plumbers', the similarities with the Nixon regime are as Charles Colson says, 'ironic', and hopefully, the similarities will continue with the justice that is served.
I guess we'll find out more about that today...
Media Matters
The October 26 edition of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes featured the analysis of Townhall.com columnist Charles W. Colson, who served as special counsel to President Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1973. After noting that CIA operative Valerie Plame was working at the agency's headquarters in the Langley neighborhood of McLean, Virginia, when her identity was allegedly leaked, Colson said: "When I was in the White House, if somebody was working at Langley, they were fair game."
Colson was indicted in connection with the Watergate cover-up. The charges were dropped when he subsequently pleaded guilty to obstructing justice by disseminating information from the FBI file of Daniel Ellsberg in an effort to influence the outcome of Ellsberg's trial in connection with leaking the Pentagon Papers. Colson served seven months in prison.
On Hannity & Colmes, Colson noted that the Plame investigation "is very much like the Watergate [case], in the sense that it wasn't the original crime in Watergate, that is, the break-in to the Democratic headquarters, it was the cover-up. I hope and pray this isn't so." Later in the segment, he explained to co-host Sean Hannity: "But the other thing that's ironic about this, Sean, is that I went to prison for disseminating an FBI file attempting to smear Daniel Ellsberg. So there are stark similarities in this case."
Watergate, Brief Timeline
"When I was in the White House, if somebody was working at Langley, they were fair game" - Charles Colson
Back in the day, when Richard Nixon and his band of 'Plumbers' were burglarizing, smearing and obstructing justice, that administration didn't shy away either from those in the CIA who thought of getting in their way. And that is where Dick Cheney, working in the Nixon White House, cut his teeth on vindictiveness for anyone who dared to challenge his authority.
Unfortunately for the new gang of 'Plumbers', the similarities with the Nixon regime are as Charles Colson says, 'ironic', and hopefully, the similarities will continue with the justice that is served.
I guess we'll find out more about that today...
Media Matters
The October 26 edition of Fox News' Hannity & Colmes featured the analysis of Townhall.com columnist Charles W. Colson, who served as special counsel to President Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1973. After noting that CIA operative Valerie Plame was working at the agency's headquarters in the Langley neighborhood of McLean, Virginia, when her identity was allegedly leaked, Colson said: "When I was in the White House, if somebody was working at Langley, they were fair game."
Colson was indicted in connection with the Watergate cover-up. The charges were dropped when he subsequently pleaded guilty to obstructing justice by disseminating information from the FBI file of Daniel Ellsberg in an effort to influence the outcome of Ellsberg's trial in connection with leaking the Pentagon Papers. Colson served seven months in prison.
On Hannity & Colmes, Colson noted that the Plame investigation "is very much like the Watergate [case], in the sense that it wasn't the original crime in Watergate, that is, the break-in to the Democratic headquarters, it was the cover-up. I hope and pray this isn't so." Later in the segment, he explained to co-host Sean Hannity: "But the other thing that's ironic about this, Sean, is that I went to prison for disseminating an FBI file attempting to smear Daniel Ellsberg. So there are stark similarities in this case."
Watergate, Brief Timeline
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