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Politics > Politics-USA |
| User: |
"Harry Hope" |
| Date: |
18 May 2007 11:28:05 AM |
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Gonzogate is Watergate without the break-in |
From Editor and Publisher, 5/18/07:
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/departments/syndicates/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003587595
Columnist to Media: Think of Attorney Scandal in Watergate Terms
By E&P Staff
NEW YORK
Marie Cocco, in her latest column, has some advice for the media:
"It is time to stop referring to the 'fired U.S attorneys scandal' by
that misnomer, and call it what it is: a White House-coordinated
effort to use the vast powers of the Justice Department to swing
elections to Republicans."
Cocco -- a former Newsday of Melville, N.Y., staffer syndicated by the
Washington Post Writers Group -- added:
"This is no botched personnel switch. It is not even a political spat
between the fired U.S. attorneys and Bush-administration officials who
deemed some of them insufficiently zealous in promoting the
department's law-enforcement priorities. Connect the dots and you see
an insidious effort to corrupt the American electoral system. It's
Watergate without the break-in or the bagmen."
And she wrote:
"The emerging picture is one in which widespread Republican claims of
'voter fraud' -- unsubstantiated in virtually every case examined
closely by law enforcement officials, local journalists, state
elections officials, and academics -- were used to stymie
Democratic-leaning voter-registration groups and create a taint around
Democrats... ."
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In the best tradition of Tricky Dicky
Harry
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