yeah, that william barr. that was the next independent counsel investigation following the one more than a decade earlier, the watergate investigation of richard nixon. which also resulted in indictments and convictions. and for which nixon ultimately resigned. both of those investigations, watergate and iran contra, were denounced at the time by republicans as partisan witch hunts. in the case of watergate by none other than gerald ford who succeeded nixon and ultimately pardoned him. fast forward to the 1990s and america experienced the appointment of an independent counsel to investigate bill clinton in white water which morphed into an investigation of clinton s sex wife, an investigation with all the earmarks of an actual partisan witch hunt. it was so obviously political, the independent counsel statute was changed giving us the statute we have today.
resign. after the iran-contra scandal, which reagan got away with, and the republicans paid nothing. if you talk about the moral imperative there, there isn t much of a difference. but accountability for nixon ensured that there would be a consequence. and i learned this in ultra again. accountability is because the republican party is broken. it is being corrupted from the top to the bottom and now the bottom back up to the top. the justice system and the congressional committees were never supposed to exist in a vacuum without voters turning these people out. so what is broken isn t just the slow and excruciating wheels of justice and the limits of the congressional investigation that can t enforce all their subpoenas, can t or won t, it s that the politics on one side of the aisle are totally broken. and it s interdependent. accountability needs to be fast
thing, if the memories, political memories can be very short in public opinion. right now, timmy walker and masters to a certain extent to who is profoundly unlikable. and j. d. vance. j. d. vance, how much can you bank on, just put some on the ballot line, it s basically a 50/50 country. if the other party controls, maybe use the money. it is tribalism that is being borne out in the republican party. i think it s accountability. the difference after watergate s, richard nixon got on the helicopter and had to resign as president. after the iran contra scandal which reagan got away with, the republicans pay no consequences for that whatsoever. against watergate, if you talk about the moral imperative there.
country and if the other party controls, maybe money falls from the tree. tribalism is what s being borne out the difference is after watergate richard nixon got on the helicopter and had to resign. after the iran-contra scandal, which reagan got away with, and the republicans paid nothing. if you talk about the moral imperative there, there isn t much of a difference. but accountability for nixon ensured that there would be a consequence. and i learned this in ultra again. accountability is because the republican party is broken. it is being corrupted from the top to the bottom and now the bottom back up to the top. the justice system and the congressional committees were never supposed to exist in a vacuum without voters turning these people out. so what is broken isn t just the slow and excruciating wheels of justice and the limits of the congressional investigation that
September 2022 Prior to Iran’s 1979 revolution, all political voices were silenced by the Shah, and society suffered extensively from political ignorance.