The practice and practitioners of ratfucking never went away. One of Donald Segretti's guys was a young Karl Rove and he's still in the business. What the creeps from the CREP did was steal stationary from the Democrats then create false stories on that stationary. The goal was to weaken the most likely nominee and the tactic has been very successful.
The parallels to that practice is pretty clear to me and includes: use of identifying labels to pin blame on Hillary's team, scurrilous to the point of juvenile wording, attacks on more than one Dem at the same time.
So, I'd love to see this investigated to see if it can be determined how easy it would be for an outsider to cook something like this up.
If you ask me, the real story in the Watergate story wasn't the break in itself, but in the reason they broke in. They were looking for information they could use with there dirty tricks campaign and if they could get some embarrassing info at the Watergate and then embellished that with additional lies they could harm whomever they felt was the biggest threat in the election. What Segretti and other were doing was subverting the election process and it would be interesting to know if this story was yet another case of the Repubs continuing to be ... ratfuckers!
Brian
