The Latest FBI Spying Makes Watergate Look Trivial

The FBI secretly monitored the phone records of eight sitting Republican senators in an abusive fishing expedition done with impunity - Hans Mahncke

In 1972, a small team of operatives connected to President Richard Nixon’s re-election campaign broke into the Democratic National Committee’s offices in the Watergate complex to install listening devices. 

• To this day, there is no conclusive evidence that Nixon personally ordered — or even knew of — the break-in beforehand. 

Yet Watergate shaped American political consciousness for decades...

• Fast forward 50 years, and what has come to light under the Biden administration dwarfs the clumsy efforts of Nixon’s campaign operatives...