Reply #222: We are going to need bigger prisons

[jberryhill]

...if "lying to the American people" becomes a criminal offense.

I am interested about "Nixon's attempt to manipulate an election", though.

It is clear that Nixon engaged in wrongdoing to mitigate potential fallout from the Watergate burglary. Nobody disputes that. It is not so clear that Nixon auhorized or had foreknowledge of the Watergate burglary, nor is it clear to what end any information obtained by the bugging of DNC headquarters would have been at all useful or effective to CREEP.

Just for context, do you also maintain that Kennedy and Johnson were "polished slime", or have you not also taken a poll of Vietnamese mothers?

Had the CIA not backed the Iraqi coups in 1963 and 1968, there is substantial doubt that Saddam Hussein would ever have come to power. Both the Kennedy and Johnson administrations were involved in the same sorts of manipulations of foreign governments which, at long last, most rational people have come to realize are counterproductive in the long run.