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Why isn’t it imperative that Republicans do unto Democrats what they continually do unto them?

Republicans Go to Jail, Democrats Run Free


By Steve Baldwin and Delroy Murdock——--May 22, 2017

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How odd: During the eight years of one of America’s shadiest presidencies, not one Obama administration official went to prison. Or was convicted of a crime. Or even indicted. Sure, Rep. Darryl Issa (R-CA) and the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee held plenty of hearings. But while they called countless press conferences, not one Democrat ever was held accountable for the numerous crimes exposed by this and other Republican-controlled congressional panels. Let’s stroll down memory lane and see how the Democrats acted when they investigated real or fabricated Republican scandals. When the Watergate “Plumbers” (so called because their clandestine job was to plug news leaks) broke into the Democratic National Committee to snatch campaign documents and bug the party’s headquarters, hellfire erupted. There was no evidence that President Richard Milhous Nixon knew about the June 1972 break-in in advance nor did he authorize it. Regardless, he was forced to resign for covering up the crime, after he learned about it.
Senate Democrats created a committee to investigate Watergate. Chaired by Senator Sam Ervin (D-NC), it uncovered information that led to 69 people being charged with various crimes. Among them, 48 were found guilty. Sixteen of them served prison time, including Attorney General John Mitchell, top presidential advisers John Ehrlichman and H.R. “Bob” Haldeman, White House Counsel John Dean, Special Counsel to the President Charles Colson, Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP) official James McCord, and “Plumbers” E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy. Without diminishing the severity of Nixon’s crimes, it bears mention that the Watergate break-in did not compromise national security. No secrets were stolen or exposed. And the campaign documents obtained by the Plumbers were inconsequential; had the break-in not been exposed, the information from these documents most likely would have had little impact on the result of the pending presidential campaign: a massive re-election landslide for Nixon. The other big Republican “scandal” on which Democrats pride themselves for exposing was the Iran-Contra affair, which plagued President Ronald Reagan’s second term. Reagan administration officials secretly sold arms to Iran and then used the proceeds to fund covertly the Contras’ resistance against Nicaragua’s Marxist-Leninist Sandinista regime. -- More...

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