WORSE THAN WATERGATE
The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush
Preface
George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney have created the most secretive presidency
of my lifetime. Their secrecy is far worse than during Watergate, and it bodes
even more serious consequences. Their secrecy is extreme-not merely unjustified
and excessive but obsessive. It has created a White House that hide sits
president's weaknesses as well as its vice president's strengths.
It has given us a presidency that operates on hidden agendas. To protect their
secrets, Bush and Cheney dissemble as a matter of policy. In fact, the
Bush-Cheney presidency is strikingly Nixonian, only with regard to secrecy far
worse (and no one will ever successfully accuse me of being a Nixon apologist).
Dick Cheney, who runs his own secret governmental operations, openly declares
that he wants to turn the clock back to the pre-Watergate years-a time of an
unaccountable and extra constitutional imperial presidency. To say that their
secret presidency is undemocratic is an understatement.
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