In the end, Nixon decided to give Judge Sirica the tapes, but afterwards more suspicions grew because he had released edited transcripts (Watergate). As Nixon proceeded, he did not realize that after he gave up the edited transcripts he put himself on the side of the guilty, because later Judge Sirica subpoenaed additional tapes (Watergate). The choices President Nixon made lead this issue to the U.S. Supreme Court, because suspicion grew that the evidence was deliberately destroyed (Watergate). The case had become very serious because they turned the jury over to the House of Judiciary Committee, which then begun the impeachment investigation
One of the main reasons was because Nixon was not physically involved in the the actual planning of the Watergate scandal; however his involvement in the cover ups for all the incidents that had taken place was his downfall. The Watergate scandal had made its mark on American presidential abuses of power. The cover-up itself signifies the White House to obstruction of the investigation .The Watergate scandal was the nation’s worst political stories of all times. President Nixon being incorporative during the investigation proved that his involvement was the one of the main reasons of his downfall. .By failing to provide the investigators with all the information just proves his admission of guilt.
Lastly, the executive branch failed to keep Congress informed. They did not brief Congress when they sold the arms to Iran and they completely disregarded laws restricting aid to the contras (Lowenthal, 169). The resulting blowback nearly ruined President Reagan’s efforts for global security. The power struggle between Congress and the President was problematic. It appeared that, even though Congress was supposed to be briefed on covert missions in order to decide if they should fund it or not, the National Security Council walked easily through a loophole in the
The R.T.C ( Resolution Trust Corporation) began to investigate the whitewater case and found that once again Mcdougal was found using large amounts of money he should not have and the Clintons were caught in the crossfire. A report down by the R.T.C, the Pillsbury report, provided evidence that suggested the Clintons knew nothing about the Mcdougal's misdoings and that they were simply innocent bystanders. Regardless of the report, the media still bombarded the Clinton’s with questions about the case until the attorney general at the time appointed an investigator, Robert Fiske, to get to the bottom of the whole scandal. Robert Fiske later on was replaced by Kenneth Starr, another investigator, who found incriminating evidence of sexual misconduct down by president Clinton. The infamous “Starr report” soon came out which accused president Clinton of having an affair with another colleague of his in the White house.
The people in the movie did not take being part of the government very seriously and that is why all of this mishap happened to begin with. Towards the end of the movie, Dave confronts the United States people about all the faults of the real president, Bill Mitchell. In the end of the movie everything starts to get cleared up and the vice president becomes the president directly after the United States people were told about Bill Mitchell’s death. That was a good way of using governmental power because they did not hide his death from the people of the United States. I learned a lot from this assignment.
He would kill people that would protest against him. He became president in 1987 and kept getting reelected. He was an unfair ruler, he would unfairly arrest and mistreat political dissidents. He changed the constitution twice so he can be reelected and even though things started getting suspicious that he kept getting reelected with majority of vote. There were no checks and balances because Ben Ali would do what he wanted without converting it with anyone including his political party or his voter, that's why he was a dictator.
He did all this in order to persuade people to show charity and compassion to all religions. Diem, and his government’s reaction to this was to arrest thousands of Buddhist monks. Many monks disappeared and Diem’s government was blamed. For these, and many other reasons, “Kennedy became convinced that Diem could never unite South Vietnam against Communism and he agreed that the CIA should initiate a program to overthrow him. A CIA operative, Lucien Conein, provided some Vietnamese generals with $40,000 to overthrow Diem with the added guarantee that the United States would not protect the South Vietnamese leader.
One of the major reasons that Nixon even covered up the Watergate burglary was due to the fact that the government was not going to take much action they were just going to require that all parties involved resigned. Although Nixon was not about to stand by and let some of the men he was most dependant on resign without trying to help. The cover up included shredding all incriminating document, urging the FBI to stop the investigation on the grounds of “National Security”, the Committee to Reelect the President (CRP) gave out nearly $500,000 to the burglars to keep them silent due to an indictment by the federal
More should have been done between the President, CIA, FBI and other appropriate anti-terrorism officials regarding this group and/or its leader. Some may say that the President himself was aware of Osama’s direct dwelling, but because it was a suspected site and not a validated site he withheld attacking. “…the Clinton administration knew the broad outlines in 1996 of bin Laden's capabilities and his intent, and unfortunately, almost nothing was done about it." (Lichtblau, 2005) This gave space for another attack from Al-Qaeda. On October 12, 2000 the USS Cole was attacked by suicide terrorist of Al Qaeda killing American sailors and injuring others.
Because they would find something that was out of the ordinary. Something that didn’t fit with the story they were being told about how JFK died. So why was he killed? He was killed because of his secret society speech. If you listen to the entire thing, it is truly a greatly moving speech.