I suppose Shanghaiceltic woudl say that Richard Nixon's staff were quite right to collude with himm in trying to cover-up the Watergate burglary, and it was a scandal that they got into hot water for doing so.

However it seems to me that bugging Secretary General of theUnited Nations, and various other friendly governments was a much more serious crime than anything Nixon was ever accused of.

But of course that's in America, where at leat they give a tojken nod in the direction of the principle that no Government is above the law, in theory anyway.

Here in the UK, anytime the Government plans to break the law, it just needs to wheel out a friendly lawyer and he says it's all legal, and that's OK.