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Title: The Carnivores of Civil Liberties
Post by: endicom on May 31, 2018, 11:00:43 pm
American Greatness
Victor Davis Hanson
May 31, 2018

After a landslide loss in the 1972 presidential election, the Democratic Party was resuscitated the following year by the Watergate scandal. The destruction of the Nixon presidency powered the Democrats to make huge political gains in the 1974 elections.

Watergate also birthed (or perhaps rebirthed) modern investigative journalism. A young generation of maverick reporters supposedly alone had challenged the establishment in order to uncover the whole truth about abuses of power by the Nixon Administration.

Liberalism rode high during the Watergate era. It had demanded that civil liberties be protected from the illegal or unconstitutional overreach of the Nixon-era FBI, CIA, and other agencies. Liberals alleged that out-of-control officials had spied on U.S. citizens for political purposes and then tried to mask their wrongdoing under the cover of “national security” or institutional “professionalism.”

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Title: Re: The Carnivores of Civil Liberties
Post by: Fishrrman on June 01, 2018, 12:27:02 am
A very good piece by Mr. Hanson.
Title: Re: The Carnivores of Civil Liberties
Post by: endicom on June 01, 2018, 12:29:15 am
Quote from: Fishrrman on June 01, 2018, 12:27:02 am
A very good piece by Mr. Hanson.

Yeah, he's had many.

Title: Re: The Carnivores of Civil Liberties
Post by: Oceander on June 01, 2018, 12:33:06 am
Not bad.
Title: Re: The Carnivores of Civil Liberties
Post by: Sanguine on June 01, 2018, 03:16:11 am
Good piece.
Title: Re: The Carnivores of Civil Liberties
Post by: TomSea on June 01, 2018, 04:03:16 am
I don't think this article is nearly as good as some of his others.