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Thursday, January 29, 2009
Are We Civilized Enough to Hold Our Leaders Accountable for War Crimes?
(37 comments) Eric Holder, recommended by the Senate Judiciary Committee (Cornyn and Coburn dissenting)as Attorney General, will be the one to deal with questions of Bush administration culpability. John Dean, former counsel to Richard Nixon has looked into possible future action. He says, "The World Is Watching"

Saturday, January 12, 2008
Broken Government: How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches
Excerpted from John W. Dean's Broken Government: How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches Republicans had learned little about abusing power in the ways that ultimately destroyed the Nixon presidency.

Monday, July 10, 2006
How Conservatives Have Become Authoritarians and What it Means
(4 comments) excerpt from John Dean's Conservatives Without Conscience; authoritarians are frequently enemies of freedom, antidemocratic, antiequality, highly prejudiced, mean-spirited, power hungry, Machiavellian, and amoral. They are also often conservatives without conscience who are capable of plunging this nation into disasters the likes of which we have never known.