{"id":19794,"date":"2017-02-16T01:37:39","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T01:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19794"},"modified":"2017-02-16T01:37:39","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T01:37:39","slug":"here-comes-another-gate-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19794","title":{"rendered":"Here comes another ‘gate’ scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The “gate” suffix no doubt is going to be attached to the brewing controversy boiling up out of the Trump administration.<\/p>\n

Russiagate? Flynngate? Hackinggate?<\/p>\n

I grew annoyed long ago at this media concoction to put the “gate” suffix at the end of every scandal that comes down the pike.<\/p>\n

The Watergate scandal that brought down a president in August 1974 stands alone. It began with a “third-rate burglary” at the Democratic National Committee offices in the Watergate office complex. It morphed into something, well, much bigger than the metro desk crime story that the Washington Post considered it initially.<\/p>\n

However, the controversy involving Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, and his alleged contacts with Russian government officials smells like a story that could rival Watergate in its gravity.<\/p>\n

Some veteran journalists who covered the Watergate scandal are beginning to pick up the scent of something quite serious. Flynn’s contacts with Russian officials during the 2016 presidential campaign could involve collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin to, um, influence the election.<\/p>\n

We’re a long way from drawing such conclusions. There needs to be a thorough, aggressive and independent investigation into what Flynn did and what he told those Russians. Congressional Republicans have joined their Democratic colleagues in calling for such a probe.<\/p>\n

Let it commence, but please — no “gate” references.<\/p>\n\n

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The “gate” suffix no doubt is going to be attached to the brewing controversy boiling up out of the Trump administration. Russiagate? Flynngate? Hackinggate? I grew annoyed long ago at this media concoction to put the “gate” suffix at the end of every scandal that comes down the pike. The Watergate scandal that brought down … Continue reading Here comes another ‘gate’ scandal<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10,13,14],"tags":[74,1424,2696,6718,3213,4050,5191,5206],"class_list":["post-19794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","category-media-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-2016-election","tag-donald-trump","tag-kremlin","tag-michael-flynn","tag-national-security-adviser","tag-russia","tag-washington-post","tag-watergate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19796,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19794\/revisions\/19796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}