Watergate operatives relabeled every crime as neutral bureaucratic process

Evidence

Casing the Watergate building was a “vulnerability and feasibility study.” … Illegal wiretapping was “electronic surveillance.” Spying on people was “visual surveillance.” Lying was a “different version of the facts.” — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 380

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• SHARE: For a friend interested in Watergate or political euphemism — the ‘vulnerability and feasibility study’ and ‘different version of the facts’ are the gems.