“That’s why the Bush White House’s corruption in the end surpasses Nixon’s. We can no longer take cold comfort in the Watergate maxim that the cover-up was worse than the crime. This time the crime is worse than the cover-up, and the punishment could rain down on us all.
Frank Rich in a column discussing Jane Mayer’s The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals.