PS: Books

book reviews -- from short and sweet to...long and bitter.

Sunday, October 31, 2004

Worse than Watergate

Worse than Watergate, by John Dean.

I scarcely know where to begin. An overview, essentially, of the Secrecy Administration of George W. Bush, from the gutting of the GAO's ability to request data from the White House to the outing of an undercover CIA operative by "senior officials", all, as the title indicates, in comparison to the Nixon Secrecy Administration.

Nixon comes off looking positively transparent.

If you don't read this book, do pick it up in a library sometime and read Appendix I. It's about 4 pages, listing statements made by Bush in his State of the Union address in January 2003, and the underlying actual data, or lack thereof.