Harper is looking more and more like the disgraced US president that had to resign.
PMO asked staff to supply 'enemy' lists to new ministers - Politics - CBC News
Nixon's Enemies List - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
They both showed contempt for honest elections campaigns and governments.
By Harper.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_tricks
The Harper PMO paid off a senator to keep quiet about an expense scandal and tried to rig a coverup.
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Watergate Scandal Timeline
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_scandal
It seems like the office of the current Canadian PM is modeled on that of one of the most corrupt Presidential administrations in US history.
Harper is acting paranoid.
Nixon was clearly paranoid.
Recordings reveal Richard Nixon's obsession with predecessors | World news | guardian.co.uk
Sound familiar, for Nixon the press and academics were the enemy and the same can be said for Harper and his PMO.
PMO asked staff to supply 'enemy' lists to new ministers - Politics - CBC News
Prime Minister Stephen Harper's office asked staff to include a list of "friend and enemy stakeholders" in their transition binders for new ministers appointed in Monday's cabinet shuffle, according to a leaked email.
The email, obtained by CBC News and several other media outlets, was sent July 4 by Erica Furtado in the Prime Minister's Office and shows a checklist for what should be in the transition binders.
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"Who to avoid: bureaucrats that can't take no (or yes) for an answer" is on the list, as well as "Who to engage or avoid: friend and enemy stakeholders."
The request for a list of problematic bureaucrats was subsequently dropped, according to another email sent a few hours later on July 4.
The person who leaked the emails said that when some staff balked at the idea of coming up with the blacklists, they were cut off from further communications about the matter.
The person also said staff were given examples of stakeholders that could go on the "enemies list" and they included environmental groups, non-profit organizations, and civic and industry associations with views different than the government's.
Transition books and briefing notes for new ministers would normally include names of key people on issues, but dividing them into "friend and enemy" categories isn't common.
Nixon's Enemies List - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nixon’s Enemies List is the informal name of what started as a list of President of the United States Richard Nixon’s major political opponents compiled by Charles Colson, written by George T. Bell[1] (assistant to Colson, special counsel to the White House), and sent in memorandum form to John Dean on September 9, 1971. The list was part of a campaign officially known as “Opponents List” and “Political Enemies Project.” The list became public knowledge when Dean mentioned during hearings with the Senate Watergate Committee that a list existed containing those whom the president did not like. Journalist Daniel Schorr, who happened to be on the list, managed to obtain copies of it later that day.
They both showed contempt for honest elections campaigns and governments.
By Harper.
CBC Report on Conservatives' leaked "dirty tricks manual" - YouTube
Tories plead guilty in campaign financing case | Toronto Star
Canada’s governing Conservative party has admitted to illegal campaign advertising tactics in the 2006 campaign that brought Stephen Harper to power.
Robocalls Election Fraud Ruling Prompts Calls For Accountability
The electoral fraud committed by someone with access to the federal Conservative Party’s database of voter information has prompted calls for political parties to be held accountable for any misuse or loss of the thousands of pieces of data they collect about Canadians.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_tricks
The Nixon Committee for the Re-Election of the President (CRP), a private non-governmental campaign entity, used funds from its coffers to pay for, and later cover up, "dirty tricks" performed against opponents by Richard Nixon's employee, Donald Segretti. Segretti famously coined the term 'rat****ing' for recruiting conservative members to infiltrate opposition groups (and/or misrepresent them through false flag activities) in order to undermine the effectiveness of such opposition.
The Harper PMO paid off a senator to keep quiet about an expense scandal and tried to rig a coverup.
NDP calls on Harper to explain Wright-Duffy 'coverup' - Politics - CBC News
NDP ethics critic Charlie Angus is calling on Prime Minister Stephen Harper to explain how his former chief of staff Nigel Wright gave Senator Mike Duffy $90,000 without his knowledge.
Ex-Harper adviser denies whitewashing Duffy expense report - Politics - CBC News
Sources have laid out how Stewart Olsen put forward a motion at the larger, closed-door internal economy committee to remove some of the most pointed language in its report on Duffy. The Liberals did not support that final report.
The decision was made to leave the language in reports on former Conservative Patrick Brazeau and former Liberal Mac Harb as a way to try and recoup moneys owed, Stewart Olsen said. Duffy had already repaid $90,000.
Watergate Scandal Timeline
On August 1, 1972, a $25,000 cashiers check earmarked for the Nixon re-election campaign was found in the bank account of one of the Watergate burglars. Further investigation revealed that, in the months leading up to their arrests, more thousands had passed through their bank and credit card accounts, supporting the burglars' travel, living expenses, and purchase,. Several donations (totaling $89,000) were made by individuals who thought they were making private donations to the President's re-election committee. The donations were made in the form of cashier's, certified, and personal checks, and all were made payable only to the Committee to Re-Elect the President. However, through a complicated fiduciary set-up, the money actually went into an account owned by a Miami company run by Watergate burglar Bernard Barker.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_scandal
The Watergate scandal was a political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970s as a result of the June 17, 1972, break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C., and the Nixon administration's attempted cover-up of its involvement. The scandal eventually led to the resignation of Richard Nixon, the President of the United States, on August 9, 1974 — the only resignation of a U.S. President to date. The scandal also resulted in the indictment, trial, conviction, and incarceration of forty-three persons, dozens of whom were Nixon's top administration officials.
It seems like the office of the current Canadian PM is modeled on that of one of the most corrupt Presidential administrations in US history.
Harper is acting paranoid.
The NDP's deputy leader Megan Leslie said the instructions to provide an "enemy" list show the PMO is "paranoid" and trying to exercise control over ministers.
"But they also have this 'for you or against you' kind of attitude where unless you are toeing their line and marching to the beat of their drum you are an enemy," she said.
Leslie said it's useful for ministers to share information with each other but classifying people as enemies crosses a line.
Nixon was clearly paranoid.
Recordings reveal Richard Nixon's obsession with predecessors | World news | guardian.co.uk
More than 35 years after he left office in disgrace, a stash of recordings has been made public confirming the popular view of Richard Nixon as a lying, venal, foul-mouthed, paranoid conspirator.
In the 198 hours of recordings and 90,000 pages of documents released by the Nixon Presidential Library, the late president discusses his 1972 election landslide, the Vietnam peace talks and "Christmas bombing" campaign. But mostly he urges staff to use all means necessary to discredit opponents.
"Never forget," he tells national security advisers Henry Kissinger, above, and Alexander Haig in a conversation on December 14 1972, "the press is the enemy, the press is the enemy. The establishment is the enemy, the professors are the enemy, the professors are the enemy. Write that on a blackboard 100 times."
Sound familiar, for Nixon the press and academics were the enemy and the same can be said for Harper and his PMO.