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ROIL

It is all swirling now; the executive privilege until the end thing; the questions that they should be asking Condi; the back spin and the front spin on who said what to who. I really am not too too concerned about who did what to who back then. What appalls me is the resolute secrecy and fabrication that the bushies seem willing to indulge in to deflect any criticism before it happens; then, the invective and smear machine that gets flicked on when criticism occurs. Blah blah.

John Dean was a past master at secrecy, if not invective. He is in my time. I remember watching him work his way through the Nixon lie machine in the Watergate hearings. He has written a book comparing Nixonian and Bushian duplicity (guess who wins) and is out selling it. There is a nice interview that gives the long and the short of it in Salon this morning: Creepier than Nixon. You can say that again. I was around for him too. Wait until someone discovers the spooks and footpads from this administration breaking and entering somewhere. It could happen. The atmo is right. History repeats itself. It is the next step.

Dean is an interesting guy; the honest civil servant who could only swallow so much. I remember that I loved to watch him. He had this sort of sexy geek personna. His quiet approach to his testimony was deadly in that it was quiet! Careful. The anti-Nixon. Butterfield, the one who told about the Oval Office taping was like that too. These are the heroes of our times. I think this guy Clarke is in the mold. It does not matter. Sooner or later someone has enough and fesses up; blows the whistle. The emperor has no clothes (spare me the sight), the house of cards collapse, and we get on with a new cycle.