{"id":538,"date":"2004-01-22T19:50:51","date_gmt":"2004-01-22T23:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/metasj\/2004\/01\/22\/watergate-returns-in-earnest\/"},"modified":"2004-01-22T19:50:51","modified_gmt":"2004-01-22T23:50:51","slug":"watergate-returns-in-earnest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2004\/01\/22\/watergate-returns-in-earnest\/","title":{"rendered":"Watergate returns, in earnest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a345'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>So some <STRONG>snooping<\/STRONG> and &#8216;breaking in&#8217; has been going on for a long time&#8230; to cement the re-election of our popular president, among other things.&nbsp; I don&#8217;t know what to say to that, except&#8230; I know some people on <STRONG>both<\/STRONG> <STRONG>sides<\/STRONG> of the fence who have mused publicly that they would love to do just this.&nbsp; There&#8217;s something deeply wrong with our set of acceptable <STRONG>morals<\/STRONG> that makes everyone think <\/P><br \/>\n<OL><br \/>\n<LI><STRONG>They&#8217;re<\/STRONG> right about complex national issues, and <EM>the others<\/EM> are wrong, and <\/LI><br \/>\n<LI>Realizing their pure vision \/ defeating <EM>the others<\/EM> <STRONG>justifies<\/STRONG> almost any means.<\/LI><\/OL><br \/>\n<P>When my brightest and sweetest friends start wandering into this territory, I worry.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/25pny'>Watergate returns, in earnest &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So some snooping and &#8216;breaking in&#8217; has been going on for a long time&#8230; to cement the re-election of our popular president, among other things.&nbsp; I don&#8217;t know what to say to that, except&#8230; I know some people on both sides of the fence who have mused publicly that they would love to do just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetic-justice"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-8G","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}