Well if you are too young to remember the Watergate scandal, it almost tore America apart at the seams.  In fact, our country has never been as close to a Constitutional crisis as it was back in 1974, when President Richard Nixon was serving his second term in office.  With impeachment proceedings looming, Nixon was forced to resign as President of the United States for his participation in the Whitehouse’s cover-up of a burglary of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) offices in the Watergate office building in Washington, D. C. by Republican operatives at the direction of staff members of the Nixon Administration.

This is certainly not to insinuate that anything as remotely sinister as the Watergate scandal crimes against the country took place down in Louisiana near the end of January.  However, there are some very strange similarities that cannot be overlooked in respect to the Watergate burglars and the perpetrators of this political criminal escapade in Louisiana.

First, in both cases at least one of the men had a relatively cozy relationship to a U.S. intelligence agency.   E. Howard Hunt was a former C.I.A. officer, and one of the Whitehouse operatives who planned and helped execute the break-in of the offices of the DNC.  In the present case, it was reported today that Stanley Dai was the assistant director of the Intelligence Community Center of Academic Excellence program at Trinity Washington University, a small Catholic college in Washington D.C.,  – a program completely funded by the National Intelligence Agency.  Moreover, Dai was listed as the principle contact  for a symposium that featured officials of the National Intelligence Council, the National Counterterrorism Center, and the C.I.A. 

Second, in both cases one of the participants has a “relationship” to a federal law enforcement agency.  In Watergate, it was the still-infamous G. Gordon Liddy, a former F.B.I. agent who assisted Hunt in the planning and execution of the burglary.  In the Louisiana case, one of the participants is Robert Flanagan, the son of Shreveport-based acting U.S. Attorney Bill Flanagan.

Third, it should come as no irony that in each of these cases the actors were low-level political hacks obviously trying to infiltrate offices of Democratic party members and engage in politically-motivated espionage in order to win an election.  It should not be lost on anyone that for these petty criminals, democracy is far too dangerous to be left in the hands of the your political opponents.

Finally, the participation in the Louisiana case by one of the principles in the political “sting operation” to discredit ACORN - a molehill that looks bigger than a mountain to Glenn Beck’s deranged mind – should give a whole new meaning to political karma.

To James O’Keefe:  a word of advice - acting like a big pimp when you are just a little political whore will eventually catch up with you.