Chris Matthews: GOP Using ‘Cold War CIA Tactics’ to Bring Down U.S. Government

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14. This isn't new -- it's just being amplified

The movement conservatives who came out of Young Americans for Freedom back in the 1960s learned those sorts of destabilization tactics by way of CIA officer and YAF founder William Buckley. Just a few years later, the same tactics were finding their way via people in the Nixon reelection campaign (like Buckley's former CIA superior and close pal E. Howard Hunt) to Karl Rove and his buddies at the College Republican National Committee.

What we speak of as GOP dirty tricks are basically CIA methodology -- but up to now, they've been applied mainly to winning elections by undermining the opposition's candidates. The part that's new is extending them past the election season in an attempt to bring down a sitting president.