Was Obama administration illegal spying worse than Watergate?
Glenn Harlan Reynolds, Opinion columnist Published 10:24 a.m. ET May 30, 2017 | Updated 19 hours ago
The Obama administration's illegal spying may have been worse than Watergate.
In 1972, some employees of President Nixon’s re-election committee were caught when they broke into the Democratic National Committee headquarters to plant a bug. This led to Nixon’s resignation and probably would have led to his felony prosecution had he not been pardoned by his successor, Gerald Ford.
But if a single bugging of the political opposition is enough to bring down a presidency — and maybe lead to an unprecedented criminal prosecution of a former president — then what are we to make of the recently unveiled Obama administration program of massively spying on political opponents in violation of clearly established law?
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