Watergate Echoes in NSA Courtroom

This is a thousand times worse than Watergate.

I am amazed when I hear the pundocracy opine that all this law-breaking by the Bushites are doing cannot be compared with what Nixon did.

Oh, Puleeze!

There is no comparison, that's for sure. BuCheney makes Nixon and his inept cadre of bat-brained 007s look like choir boys.


Wired News: Watergate Echoes in NSA Courtroom:

"SAN FRANCISCO -- It was perhaps inevitable that someone would compare President Bush's extrajudicial wiretapping operations to Richard Nixon's 1970s-era surveillance of journalists and political enemies. Both were carried out by Republican presidents; both bypassed the courts; both relied on the cooperation of U.S. telecommunications companies.
But there's some irony in the fact that it was AT&T to first make the comparison in a federal courtroom here, while defending itself from charges of complicity in Bush's warrantless spying.

Company attorney Bradford Berenson cited the case of The New York Times reporter Hedrick Smith, who'd been illegally wiretapped by Nixon's Plumbers as part of an investigation into White House leaks. In 1979, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that Smith couldn't sue Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company -- then part of AT&T's Bell System -- for installing the wiretaps at the Plumbers' behest." (Read On ^)