[CLUE-Talk] just saw this on cnn.com - Is lying about the reason for a war an impeachable offense? by John Dean

[Matt Gushee]

On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 10:38:28AM -0600, G. Richard Raab wrote:
> 
> On Saturday 07 June 2003 09:43 am, John Kennedy wrote:

John Kennedy? *John F. Kennedy*, back from the dead?

Just kidding. Couldn't resist, given the question you asked.

> > I just saw this on cnn.com
> >
> > Is this guy Nixon's lawyer?  That Dean?
> >
> > <a href=http://www.cnn.com/2003/LAW/06/06/findlaw.analysis.dean.wmd/>Is
> > lying about the reason for a war an impeachable offense?</a>
> > by John W. Dean, a former counsel to the president of the United States.
> 
> I believe it is the same John Dean. Rather funny that he is concerned about 
> ethics now.

Well, he did seem to become concerned during the Watergate
investigation; for whatever reason, he became a whistleblower. If I
remember right, he was the first official of any importance to turn
against the Nixon administration. So it could be argued that he was the
best of a bad lot (unless you follow the G. Gordon Liddy/Oliver North
philosophy of Patriotic Deception [TM], in which case he was just a
coward).

> If he was this concerned, it could have come up in the mid 70's, ~84-86 ( I do 
> not remember), ~96 (oh, wait, it did come then- a lot ), and for the last 2 
> years.
> I know that a lot of lies were told on the anthrax, and It would appear that a 
> lot more lies were told concerning Iraq. The time to mention about Iraq was 
> before hand, not after.

Well, that's a good point. Maybe Dean is one of the many whose hearts
are in the right place but are easily deceived by authority figures.

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