[…] The system is able to bring a maverick agency (like the FBI under Hoover) back into line. The classic example of this is the Presidency, Nixon and Watergate. Here is an interesting case where a President was perceived by other elements in the system as amassing more than his share of the power and […]
[…] and lobbyists to public office is clear evidence of self-denial. But then Agnew lived – and came a cropper – in those simpler, more honest times before Watergate brought down Nixon, whose downfall shortly led to Richard Cheney’s first job at the White House. The renewed shift towards ‘crony capitalism’ which Bush’s leadership of […]
[…] Baker’s book details the whole ghastly scandal, from the disputed reasons behind the invasion of Iraq; the dodgy dossier; the 45 minute claim; Gilligan’s ‘sexed-up’ report;(22)the ‘British Watergate’ of the mobile labs which didn’t exist; the use of Kelly as a political pawn by Tony Blair, Alastair Campbell and Geoff Hoon; the not-quite-leak of […]
[…] look out for: Exile: The Unquiet Oblivion of Richard M. Nixon, Robert Sam Anson Rogue Agent: The Remarkable Career of Edwin P. Wilson, James Goulden Secret Agenda: Watergate, Deep Throat and the CIA, Jim Hougan Tom Davis also stocks back issues of Jonathan Marshall’s Parapolitics.The best mail order catalogue bar none on areas of […]
[…] election victory. Crudely summarised, Scott shows the rise of the Pentagon and its industrial allies and political front men (almost entirely men). Recovering from the set-backs of Watergate, failure in Vietnam and associated revelations and Congressional enquiries, they revived the Cold War with Soviet Union – Team B and the Committee on the Present […]
[…] recently came across these remarks from 1975 by Charlene Mitchell, speaking to a group called National Alliance Against Racist and Political Oppression: ‘It is suggested that since Watergate we need no longer have fear. Congress is on the alert and will protect us…The fact of the matter of course is that the dossiers continue […]
[…] offers none – he has confused John Major with his father, who did work in a circus for a time. On page 58 we are told that Watergate was an anti-Nixon operation run by ‘the combined forces of Bilderberg/RIIA/Tavistock Institute under the direction of the British MI6.’ Didn’t you just know that Tavistock would […]
[…] website < http://www.fair.org/fair > for more about major media and the CIA-cocaine story. Walter Pincus, ‘How I Traveled Abroad On CIA Subsidy,’ San Jose Mercury, 18 February 1967, p. 14. Kathryn S. Olmsted, Challenging the Secret Government: The Post- Watergate Investigations of the CIA and FBI (Chapel Hill NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1996.
[…] Prouty’s general claims is hard to resist. He knows at first hand whereof he speaks; and some of his thesis has indeed been confirmed in the post- Watergate revelations of CIA links with the media, the Agency’s use of journalists, and the existence of ‘detailees’ – CIA agents working within the domestic US government.(2) […]
[…] those publicly sanctioned by law and society. In popular terms, collusive secrecy and law-breaking are part of how the deep political system works.'(6) Nobody who has witnessed Watergate, Irangate, Kincora, the Rainbow Warrior murders, Stalker, Colin Wallace, or any of the other significant exposes of the secret state activities of the past 25 years […]
