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...While going to school at Northwestern University, Blagojevich idolized Nixon, according to friends, frequently defending him during the Watergate scandal. According to a long-time Blagojevich friend, the future governor often found inspiration in Nixon's "me against the world" sensibility. Blagojevich particularly loved the fact that Nixon bounced back after the "you won't have Dick Nixon to kick around anymore" speech after losing the race for California governor...
...Watergate scandal, (named after the office building which Republican operatives seeking information to damage Democrats burglarized at the direction of Richard Nixon's White House staff), ended in the only resignation of a President in American history. Although it was ultimately the power of the courts and of the Congress that forced Richard Nixon from office in the middle of his second term, it was the reporting of Woodward and Bernstein that first stymied the efforts of the President's men to cover up the White House involvement in the crime. (See a photo essay on the saga of Mark...
Felt served as a confirming source for many of the scoops produced by the young Washington Post reporters, and his role was critical to the Post's willingness to print incendiary stories about the scandal. As the Post printed scoop after scoop about the scandal, the Nixon White House ratcheted up its threats against the newspaper and its television stations. The fact that a high-level official of the FBI was confirming the stories emboldened the paper's owner Katharine Graham to resist those threats. Felt's motives for helping Woodward (whom Felt had met in the Nixon White House...
...also highly probable that Felt's assistance to the press chasing the Watergate scandal was not limited to the assistance he gave Woodward. In the early months after the 1972 Watergate burglary, the Washington Post was nearly alone in trying to unearth the truth about the incident. But as more and more was revealed and after Judge John J. Sirica forced the initial burglars into cooperating with investigators, a feeding frenzy broke out among news organizations. It was likely the most competitive period in the history of the American press. As the story grew, home office editors put more...
...Amnesty International hailed the Portuguese offer as an important step forward in Europe's relationship with the U.S. on human rights. "It helps to end the ordeal of those unlawfully held, but also the international human rights scandal that is Guantánamo," says Daniel Gorevan, who heads Amnesty's Counter Terror with Justice campaign. "The E.U. can now exert a really positive influence as the new Administration tries to clear up the mess not just of Guantánamo but of the other related issues like torture and rendition...