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Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush
 
 

Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush (Hardcover)

by John W. Dean (Author) "Nothing about George W. Bush struck me as secretive, dangerous, or the slightest bit Nixonian when he first ambled onto the national political scene ..." (more)
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  • Hardcover: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Little, Brown & Company; 1 edition (6 May 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 031600023X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0316000239
  • Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 14.8 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 665,439 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Nobody knows more, both from first hand experience and legal expertise, about the abuse of presidential power and their dangers than John Dean, former counsel to President Nixon. In Worse Than Watergate, Dean delivers a stunning indictment of the current Bush administration, and issues an urgent alarm to the nation: the Bush team's obsession with secrecy and their willingness to deceive make them even more dangerous than Nixon's. Dean brilliantly explores Bush's emphasis on image over substance; his angry, mistrustful personality; his excessive fear of leaks; his reversing the work of his predecessors in opening up government; his imperial governing combined with deeply flawed decision making; and his serious abuses of national security secrecy. From refusing to explain the precarious health of the powerful vice president to hiding the identity of those setting the nation's energy policy, from obstructing 9/11 investigations to unprecedented secrecy in the name of fighting terrorism, Dean exposes the dangers of a presidency that is using weapons of mass deception against the American public.

About the Author
John W. Dean has written books, articles and essays on law, government and politics for The New York Times, MSNBC.com, Rolling Stone, Salon.com, and many other publications.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Devastating study of creeping fascism, 7 Jul 2004
By William Podmore (London United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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John Dean was counsel to President Richard Nixon, so he knows a thing or two about dirty tricks and cover-ups. Having studied the current presidency, he concludes that George W. Bush is even worse than Nixon.

Bush and his cronies hide stuff because there is lots to hide: Bush's hidden early career - his draft-dodging and his business frauds and failures, Vice President Dick Cheney's health secrets, his dodgy Halliburton deals, his secret Council for National Energy Policy Development Group, his shadow security and intelligence outfit (the Office of Special Plans) and his covert operation for the executive's survival.

Dean points out that Bush illegally uses executive privilege to overrule US law, as when he ordered that his, and his father's, presidential papers be sealed, breaking the 1978 Presidential Records Act. (Blair similarly used an order from the Privy Council to overturn British law and rob the Diego Garcia islanders of their right to return home.)

Dean demonstrates how Bush is destroying civil liberties by enforcing repressive laws. For example, 5000 Arab Americans have been detained, mistreated, and denied lawyers for more than two years; only five have been charged, and only one convicted. Dean shows how Bush criminalises dissent and controls the media, and how "mendacity has become policy."

Dean observes how Bush exploited 9/11, while secretly scheming to scuttle all efforts to discover why the USA was so unprepared for the anticipated terrorist attack. He manipulated intelligence about Iraq's 'WMD', transforming guesses and estimates into 'facts'. Dean documents the nineteen distinct lies that Colin Powell told the UN, a key part of Bush's effort to trick the American people into the illegal attack on Iraq - an impeachable offence. Dean shows how Bush is implementing the US ruling class's plan to dominate the world.

Dean points out how this creeping fascism threatens what little remains of American democracy and its people's rights. To a British eye, it is striking how closely Blair resembles Bush, and how closely the Labour Party resembles the Republican party - the same slavering worship of wealth, the same contempt for democracy, the same arrogance of power.

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5.0 out of 5 stars An indictment for Blair, 18 Jul 2004
By Alfred Mifsud (Balzan Malta) - See all my reviews
Dean makes a compelling case to prove the existence and the dangers of obsession with secrecy of the Bush administration where the objective of re-election reigns on all other considerations, even basic democratic principles.

How could an open and transparent administartion as that headed by UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, mix with such unworthy bedfellows to take the UK to war against Iraq on the flimsiest of pretexts?

Alfred Mifsud

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