NIXON WOULD BE PROUD OF W–IF HE WERE ALIVE TODAY

Naturally–in the Bush White House–secrets must be kept at all cost.

Even if it means to accidentally delete certain records, e-mails, transcripts…

You know, those pesky little things which may or may not prove that either the White House or Rove was involved in the political firings of eight US attorneys.

Of course, this is just…you know–politics as usual.

Nothing that a little arm-twisting, blackballing, and extortion wouldn’t cure.

And why not?

It worked for Nixon.

Nixon was a shrewd little man. The best Republican strategist that you could ever lay eyes on in the 20th century. He had his ways of getting around (or skirting) the laws of justice when it suited him.

When 18 minutes of the Watergate tapes were found to be missing, Nixon made the claim that “what was lost; could not be recovered.” (Nixon assumed then that record-keeping was so shoddy back then that there was nothing anyone could do to recover those critical moments which would later implicate “Tricky Dick”.)

Naturally, Bush and company are trying to pull a Nixon. By switching from Microsoft Office to Lotus–they assume the same dangerous presumption that what was lost can never be recovered.

Um…

Has anyone told them that this is the Internet Age?

That anything can be recovered?

Including lost e-mails?

Guess not.

Someone should send them an e-mail to let them know this, huh?

Schuyler Thorpe

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