[quote name='The_Continental']Watergate was a conspiracy for about five minutes - until (like I said) silence and competence failed to work in unison. After that, it was really more of a scandal.
Thanks for providing an example to illustrate my point.
[quote name='camoor'][quote name='The_Continental']Yeah - y'know, for once I'm gonna have to agree with you. It's always been my contention that
all conspiracy theories are bullshit. All of 'em - no matter who's supposedly involved.
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You tell them Continental.
After all, the Watergate conspiracy was a pack of lies, right from the start.
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Conspiracy - A combination of two or more persons to commit a criminal or unlawful act, or to commit a lawful act by criminal or unlawful means.
Since there was more then one person involved in Watergate (Nixon wasn't tiptoeing around the Watergate hotel with a mic and tape recorder), Watergate can be properly labeled as a conspiracy to this day.
Political conspiracies happen every day, it's only the stupid conspirators (like G Gordon Liddy) that expose the crime. A reasonable person can't possibly believe that Clinton was 100% innocent of all of the conspiracies he was accused of, or that all of the campaign money that Rove spent was 100% legitimate.
Oh yeah, and sorry about torpedoing your "point"