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br> San Antonio, TX /p>

How apt that such parallel events should be unfolding at the 30-year mark for Watergate:

Then: Democratic strategic data (paper files). Now: Republican strategic data (computer files).

Then: An office in the Washington Watergate hotel. Now: A computer in the Washington Hay-Adams Hotel (American Prowler, 24 June 2002).

Then: "A third rate burglary" (White House spokesman Ron Ziegler, 1972). Now: "Next time they lose something, let's hope it's a bit more sophisticated" (Democrat Maureen Dowd, N.Y. Times, 16 June 2002).

Then: "I neither authorized nor encouraged subordinates to engage in illegal or improper campaign tactics" (Richard M. Nixon, 15 August, 1973). Now: "A Senate subordinate found a disk on a street corner" (Terry McAuliffe, et al., covering their tracks after the leak).

p>So, Daschle, McAuliffe, Dowd, Gore, N.Y. Times , Washington Post , CBS, what did you know and when did you know it? br> -- Scott Young /p>

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