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Watergate Redux: Another Paranoid Right-wing Break-in

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By Richard Littlemore
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Great Richard Grave piece on Huffington Post points out the parallelโ€™s between the curret โ€œgateโ€ – Climategate – and the original paranoid right wing break-in that gate rise to the unimaginative, but in this case appropriateย suffix.

As Graves points out, Watergate showed the worst side of a paranoid right-wing group clinging desperately to power. They committed a quite famous break-in, got nothing useful for their troubles and then crashed historically trying to cover theirย tracks.

This โ€œgateโ€ began the same way. We can only hope it ends with similar calamity for the perpetrators.

By Richard Littlemore

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