Mark Felt, Watergate's "Deep Throat," Finally Silenced
With the news that Mark Felt, Watergate's "Deep Throat," has died at age 95, we can only assume that someone finally got to him and shut him up. As th...
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The Other Side of 'Deep Throat': He Spied on My Friends
Greg Mitchell | Posted 12.19.2008 | Politics
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Journalists lionizing the former FBI official for his contribution in helping to bring down Nixon should not overlook the fact that Felt was one of the architects of the bureau's notorious COINTELPRO campaign.
Frost/Nixon: A Dishonorable Distortion of History
Elizabeth Drew | Posted 12.14.2008 | Entertainment
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The film's plot is a contrivance -- its telling is so riddled with departures from what actually happened as to be fundamentally dishonest; and its climactic moment is purely and simply a lie.
Veteran Actor Frank Langella Offers Frost/Nixon and Insights into A Failed Presidency
Brad Balfour | Posted 12.07.2008 | Entertainment
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Langella: "Ron [Howard] was about as good as anyone I've ever worked with. He wants the film to be about human beings and wants it to be about the soul of people."
Farewell to a Washington Fixture
Murray Fromson | Posted 11.20.2008 | Media
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I was hoping more would have been written, marking the demise of the Los Angeles Times' Washington bureau last week It certainly deserved more than a few lines of copy.
Karl Rove's Executive Privilege May Vanish on January 20, 2009
Paul Abrams | Posted 11.10.2008 | Politics
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While the economy, energy, education and a redirection of foreign policy are all very pressing matters, the new Congress cannot ignore restoring the integrity of the Constitution.
Pat Buchanan's Wild Watergate And Russia Stories (VIDEO)
Huffington Post | Posted 11.05.2008 | Media
The folks on "Morning Joe" were a little loopy today talking about Obama's historic victory, and the result was Pat Buchanan cracking up the panel, wi...
McCain Defends His Own Association With Unrepentant Criminal: It's Ok, He Went To Jail
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.16.2008 | Politics
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After weeks of hammering Barack Obama for having an association with a former Weather Undergound member, John McCain was asked Thursday afternoon abou...
Ayers and the McCain-G. Gordon Liddy Symbiosis
Carl Bernstein | Posted 10.13.2008 | Politics
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There has been virtually nothing on the Liddy-McCain relationship in the major newspapers and broadcast networks -- is Liddy any less a domestic terrorist than Bill Ayers?
This Election, It's "Déjà Vu All Over Again"
Paul Peete | Posted 08.19.2008 | Home
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No one expects Americans to riot or protest the war like my generation did. But we cannot let what the Bush Administration started continue into the next presidential administration.
Woodward And Bernstein Assassinated In Upcoming "Watchmen" Video Game
New York Magazine | Posted 07.28.2008 | Media
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Last week, when Warner Bros. announced it was developing a video game to promote the release of next year's Watchmen film, we figured it'd be just ano...
Precedent George Bush
Chris Weigant | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics
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Bush's term in office will be remembered for the precedents it set, particularly in relation to the presidential power, and the separation of powers between the three branches of U.S. government.
Are the Democrats Worse Than the Republicans?
Cenk Uygur | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics
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President Bush is the most unpopular president of all time -- literally. But if you keep losing to the worst, what does that make you?
Senator Sam's Challenge to Presidential Power
Julian E. Zelizer and Bruce Schulman | Posted 06.04.2008 | Politics
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We seem to be back to the summer of 1973, although in some respects Bush's extension of executive power has been much more dramatic than anything in that period.
Executive Privilege: Let Congress's Contempt Suit Proceed
Emily Berman and Aziz Huq | Posted 06.02.2008 | Politics
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The executive is assigned the tools to respond to danger -- which also makes it the branch that poses the greatest risk to our own liberties and the branch in greatest need of oversight.
Remembering Ruben Salazar
Paul Krassner | Posted 04.25.2008 | Politics
Now that there's a commemorative stamp honoring Ruben Salazar, it's appropriate to recall the context in which he was killed.
James Rosen: Fox News Correspondent, Watergate Revisionist
New York Observer | Felix Gillette | Posted 04.23.2008 | Media
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"This is not your father's Watergate," said James Rosen. Mr. Rosen, an on-air D.C.-based correspondent for Fox News was speaking to NYTV on Monday af...
Subsidizing Corporate Crime and Rewarding Constitutional Abuses
Shahid Buttar | Posted 04.22.2008 | Politics
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Controversial government programs are theoretically restrained by checks and balances, but neither Congress nor the courts have a way to check a secret program.
The Leak: John McCain's Stopover In New Orleans
Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 04.19.2008 | Home
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The scandal this time is that there's no scandal. The leak John McCain should be addressing in New Orleans is the one at the 17th Street Canal Floodwall, the same one that was leaking before Katrina.
How Would Watergate Be Reported Today?
Art Brodsky | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
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Until people regain trust in what they read, the long, slow decline will continue regardless of the medium through which information is conveyed.
Is It Time to Consider Impeaching the President?
John W. Whitehead | Posted 02.06.2008 | Politics
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It's time for Congress to grow a backbone and send the president a clear message: either step in line with the rule of law and heed the voice of "we the people" or face impeachment hearings.
Things Karl Rove Just Remembered
Sean Carman | Posted 12.03.2007 | Politics
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Watergate was invented by the liberal media as retaliation for the great success of Nixon's law and order presidency.
Snake Oil: The Republican Art of Fooling the Public
Dan Agin | Posted 11.15.2007 | Politics
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In politics, we don't remember enough. We forget how much of American political history is a history of con-men selling us "snake oil."
Deep Throat and Me: Now It Can Be Told, and Not for the First Time Either
Nora Ephron | Posted 05.31.2005 | Politics
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For many years, I have lived with the secret of Deep Throat's identity. It has been hell, and I have dealt with the situation by telling pretty much anyone who asked me, including total strangers, who Deep Throat was. Not for nothing is indiscretion my middle name.
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