Lawfare is not exactly new in the US:
"Nixon Was Framed – It Was a Coup"
From the NYT! An admission against interest written by a long time scholar of Watergate, who was also targeted as a normal reporter by Obama, with more details of the general framework that has been known since at least the 1991 publication of _Silent Coup._
"But what about all the president’s men? Did they get a raw deal? According to a raft of scholarly work, the answer, unequivocally, is yes. By fabricating witness testimony, suppressing exculpatory evidence and colluding with the presiding judge, the Watergate prosecutors railroaded the former attorney general John Mitchell, the former White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman and the former domestic policy chief John Ehrlichman…
All household names back in the day....
"On Feb. 6, 1974, a task force staff lawyer, Peter Rient, sent a colleague a three-page memo titled 'Material Discrepancies Between the Senate Select Committee Testimony of John Dean and
the Tapes of Dean’s Meetings With the President.' Mr. Nixon was then six months away from resigning… [having the truth here may have saved Nixon his Presidency]"
TL;DR from the book, accurately per Wikipedia (I read it a long time ago, after having followed the whole thing in real time):
"Colodny and Gettlin contend that former White House counsel John Dean orchestrated the 1972 Watergate burglary. Dean’s motive was argued to have been to protect his future wife Maureen Biner by removing information linking her to a call-girl ring that worked for the DNC."
And it came down to his vs. Nixon's word. Of course they'd choose Dean to get Nixon, who'd been ___hated___ by the Left since his 1948 instrumental role as "the smartest" member of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in bringing down Soviet agent Alger Hiss.
Nixon was a lawyer by trade, how he finished his WWII era service since a _lot_ of contracts had to be canceled or modified after Japan surrendered.
https://joehoft.com/nixon-was-framed-it-was-coup/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Rosen
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0312051565/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Coup
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alger_Hiss
Sinistra delenda est.
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