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In reply to the discussion: anyone who thinks there isn't a disinformation campaign being conducted against Snowden [View all]Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)The Nixon Committee for the Re-Election of the President (CRP or "CREEP" , a private non-governmental campaign entity, used funds from its coffers to pay for, and later cover up, "dirty tricks" performed against opponents by Richard Nixon's employee, Donald Segretti. Segretti famously coined the term 'ratfucking'.
CREEP ran the show, and were also responsible for The White House Plumbers, sometimes simply called the Plumbers. A covert White House Special Investigations Unit established July 24, 1971 during the presidency of Richard Nixon. Its task was to stop the leaking of classified information to the news media. Its members branched into illegal activities working for the Committee to Re-elect the President, including the Watergate break-in and the ensuing Watergate scandal.
The irony is, in your ignorance you use CREEP "dirty trick" analogies to point at the victims of the new White House plumbers. You are actually describing the neo-liberal conservative authoritarian hobbyist plumbers wielding pipe wrenches to bash whistleblowers while posing as progressives posting smears calling the leakers "ratfuckers" of all things as well as traitors, racists, and all around "scumbags" on progressive boards.
Projection much?
You do realize your posts merely serve to remind me of the parallels between now and the last time "plumbers" were called to stop leaks to the press: