but when the president does it that
means that it is not illegal
by definition exactly politics without
scandal might be a lot more effective
but it would also be pretty boring
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
u.s. political scandals because people
have got to know whether or not their
presidents a crook well I’m not a crook
for this list we focused mainly on
scandals where the political
ramifications were front and center and
have avoided as many sex-based scandals
as possible because we’ve already done
that video I never told anybody to lie
not a single time never number 10 rod
Blagojevich I don’t care whether you
take me privately or publicly I can tell
you that whatever I say is always lawful
moptop governor of Illinois rod
Blagojevich flew onto the national stage
in 2009 when he was removed from office
and eventually imprisoned not a surprise
it was a foregone conclusion the reason
corruption charges related to a deal he
tried to cut lacoya bitch could appoint
the person to fill President Obama’s
vacant Senate seat and wanted to
personally profit from this appointment
but I’ve got this thing and it’s gold
and I’m just not giving it up nothing
LaGuerta bitches arrogance and frat boy
persona made this a front page headline
for months to strive to seek to find and
not to yield
Thank You number 9 the Benghazi attack
the 2012 presidential campaign was
impacted by that September’s attacks on
the US diplomatic mission in Benghazi
Libya four people including the US
ambassador were killed and several more
were injured Republican critics claim
the details of the attacks including who
was really responsible and why they
occurred were being withheld
that’s embarrassing if it’s true the
controversy continues to be a point of
contention between Democrats and
Republicans today my memory may not be
all that great but nobody died at
Watergate and no one was left on the
adil fail number 8 WikiLeaks and NSA
surveillance inappropriate government
secrecy and surveillance is an ongoing
political hot potato and was most
recently brought into the news by the
WikiLeaks and National Security Agency
Affairs over time that awareness of
wrongdoing sort of builds up and you
feel compelled to talk about it
the WikiLeaks scandal involves the
release of confidential documents the
NSA surveillance scandal concerns
government monitoring of communications
of both government officials and private
individuals big brother anyone the NSA
specifically targets the communications
of everyone it ingests them by default
number seven Abscam the FBI had caught
red-handed
a half dozen congressman and a senator
accepting money as a bride in return for
favorable legislation in the late 1970’s
and early 80’s the FBI targeted corrupt
politicians in a sting operation known
as Abscam short for arab scam although
one drug finding that contraction in
videos one senator
six congressmen and an assortment of
state and local officials in New Jersey
and Pennsylvania were caught and
convicted of taking bribes because most
of those involved were Democrats AppScan
became a nightmare for the party just as
Ronald Reagan’s presidency began you
gotta have a key and the key is always
is in my district I don’t give a shit
what extent we have to go through what
lengths and everybody else goes the same
way number six the Keating five
political corruption charges tainted
senators Allen Cranston Dennis Deacon
Cheney John Glenn john mccain and donald
regal jr. in 1989 the Keating five were
accused of improperly helping Charles H
Keating Jr who was a major contributor
to their campaigns Keating was being
investigated for his role in the
collapse of a bank that resulted in a
three billion dollar federal bailout
many of these same people also
apparently believe that yo action in
perhaps the actions of other senators
and congressmen was solely responsible
for the saving and Loan failures of
scandalous proportions Glenn and McCain
continued their political careers but
the others did not number five the
iran-contra affair it was 1985 Iran and
Iraq were at war when Iran secretly
requested an arms deal from the United
States senior officials in the Reagan
administration ran a secret project to
give weapons to Iran which at the time
was strictly forbidden money raised from
the sales was then funneled to the
anti-communist contra forces in
Nicaragua I don’t think it was wrong I
think it was a neat idea
the subsequent pardoning of those
involved by George HW Bush further
fueled cynicism about government
accountability my fellow Americans
I’ve said on several occasions that I
wouldn’t comment about the recent
congressional hearings on the
iran-contra matter until the hearings
were over well that time has come so
tonight I want to talk about some of the
lessons we’ve learned number four the
Pentagon Papers former military analyst
Daniel Ellsberg released the secret
Pentagon Papers to the press in 1971 and
created an instant crisis for the Nixon
White House among other things the
papers proved that the government had
secretly expanded the scope of the
Vietnam War into Cambodia and Laos they
also demonstrated secret American
manipulation of Vietnamese politics as
all of this activity had been kept from
the American people it increased the
perceived credible
leti gap between what the government
says and what it does
people
number three the Teapot Dome scandal
political scandals are nothing new as
the Teapot Dome scandal of the 1920s
demonstrates Secretary of the Interior
Albert befall accepted bribes so that
private oil companies could have access
to government lands in the area known as
teapot dome fall was caught and
convicted and until water date the
scandal was considered the blackest mark
on American politics
number two the Lewinsky affair these
allegations are false and I need to go
back to work for the American people was
the fallout from President Bill
Clinton’s affair with intern Monica
Lewinsky a premeditated orchestrated
political attack by Republicans or the
result of a president lying under oath I
did not have sexual relations with that
woman the subject is still being debated
today as is the exact meaning of sexual
relations what is clear is that it
resulted in the impeachment of Clinton
though not his removal from office
it also exacerbated the extremely
partisan divide in America both in
government and among the electorate and
so tonight I ask you to turn away from
the spectacle of the past seven months
to repair the fabric of our national
discourse and to return our attention to
all the challenges and all the promise
of the next American Century before we
unveil our top pick here are a few
honorable mentions yeah we had two men’s
control over a lot of members of
Congress through raising money for them
through personal relationships by being
politically indispensible for them I
regard as indefensible the fact that I
did not report the action to the police
immediately
number one the Watergate scandal I first
learned from news reports of the
Watergate break-in as a political
scandal that actually brought down a
president Watergate was a Republican
orchestrated break-in
at the Democratic National Committee
headquarters in the Watergate office
building it eventually precipitated a
massive cover-up and a series of lies
and deceptions that destroyed the
Richard Nixon presidency therefore I
shall resign the presidency effective at
noon tomorrow Nixon resigned to prevent
his forced removal from office
forty-three other people were eventually
sentenced for their roles and missed
most defining of political scandals none
of us knew what was gonna happen next
today people like the president’s kind
of disappointing really our president
wept like an insane person and then got
in a helicopter and flew away and the
whole nation just watched him go do you
agree with our picks well I don’t know
anybody who has a better idea what
scandalous outrages would you have put
on the list if you didn’t see a scandal
you think should be on the list be sure
to check out our list of the top ten
infamous political sex scandals in the
United States and for more enthralling
top 10s published daily be sure to
subscribe to watchmojo.com thank you for
watching and good night
you
means that it is not illegal
by definition exactly politics without
scandal might be a lot more effective
but it would also be pretty boring
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
u.s. political scandals because people
have got to know whether or not their
presidents a crook well I’m not a crook
for this list we focused mainly on
scandals where the political
ramifications were front and center and
have avoided as many sex-based scandals
as possible because we’ve already done
that video I never told anybody to lie
not a single time never number 10 rod
Blagojevich I don’t care whether you
take me privately or publicly I can tell
you that whatever I say is always lawful
moptop governor of Illinois rod
Blagojevich flew onto the national stage
in 2009 when he was removed from office
and eventually imprisoned not a surprise
it was a foregone conclusion the reason
corruption charges related to a deal he
tried to cut lacoya bitch could appoint
the person to fill President Obama’s
vacant Senate seat and wanted to
personally profit from this appointment
but I’ve got this thing and it’s gold
and I’m just not giving it up nothing
LaGuerta bitches arrogance and frat boy
persona made this a front page headline
for months to strive to seek to find and
not to yield
Thank You number 9 the Benghazi attack
the 2012 presidential campaign was
impacted by that September’s attacks on
the US diplomatic mission in Benghazi
Libya four people including the US
ambassador were killed and several more
were injured Republican critics claim
the details of the attacks including who
was really responsible and why they
occurred were being withheld
that’s embarrassing if it’s true the
controversy continues to be a point of
contention between Democrats and
Republicans today my memory may not be
all that great but nobody died at
Watergate and no one was left on the
adil fail number 8 WikiLeaks and NSA
surveillance inappropriate government
secrecy and surveillance is an ongoing
political hot potato and was most
recently brought into the news by the
WikiLeaks and National Security Agency
Affairs over time that awareness of
wrongdoing sort of builds up and you
feel compelled to talk about it
the WikiLeaks scandal involves the
release of confidential documents the
NSA surveillance scandal concerns
government monitoring of communications
of both government officials and private
individuals big brother anyone the NSA
specifically targets the communications
of everyone it ingests them by default
number seven Abscam the FBI had caught
red-handed
a half dozen congressman and a senator
accepting money as a bride in return for
favorable legislation in the late 1970’s
and early 80’s the FBI targeted corrupt
politicians in a sting operation known
as Abscam short for arab scam although
one drug finding that contraction in
videos one senator
six congressmen and an assortment of
state and local officials in New Jersey
and Pennsylvania were caught and
convicted of taking bribes because most
of those involved were Democrats AppScan
became a nightmare for the party just as
Ronald Reagan’s presidency began you
gotta have a key and the key is always
is in my district I don’t give a shit
what extent we have to go through what
lengths and everybody else goes the same
way number six the Keating five
political corruption charges tainted
senators Allen Cranston Dennis Deacon
Cheney John Glenn john mccain and donald
regal jr. in 1989 the Keating five were
accused of improperly helping Charles H
Keating Jr who was a major contributor
to their campaigns Keating was being
investigated for his role in the
collapse of a bank that resulted in a
three billion dollar federal bailout
many of these same people also
apparently believe that yo action in
perhaps the actions of other senators
and congressmen was solely responsible
for the saving and Loan failures of
scandalous proportions Glenn and McCain
continued their political careers but
the others did not number five the
iran-contra affair it was 1985 Iran and
Iraq were at war when Iran secretly
requested an arms deal from the United
States senior officials in the Reagan
administration ran a secret project to
give weapons to Iran which at the time
was strictly forbidden money raised from
the sales was then funneled to the
anti-communist contra forces in
Nicaragua I don’t think it was wrong I
think it was a neat idea
the subsequent pardoning of those
involved by George HW Bush further
fueled cynicism about government
accountability my fellow Americans
I’ve said on several occasions that I
wouldn’t comment about the recent
congressional hearings on the
iran-contra matter until the hearings
were over well that time has come so
tonight I want to talk about some of the
lessons we’ve learned number four the
Pentagon Papers former military analyst
Daniel Ellsberg released the secret
Pentagon Papers to the press in 1971 and
created an instant crisis for the Nixon
White House among other things the
papers proved that the government had
secretly expanded the scope of the
Vietnam War into Cambodia and Laos they
also demonstrated secret American
manipulation of Vietnamese politics as
all of this activity had been kept from
the American people it increased the
perceived credible
leti gap between what the government
says and what it does
people
number three the Teapot Dome scandal
political scandals are nothing new as
the Teapot Dome scandal of the 1920s
demonstrates Secretary of the Interior
Albert befall accepted bribes so that
private oil companies could have access
to government lands in the area known as
teapot dome fall was caught and
convicted and until water date the
scandal was considered the blackest mark
on American politics
number two the Lewinsky affair these
allegations are false and I need to go
back to work for the American people was
the fallout from President Bill
Clinton’s affair with intern Monica
Lewinsky a premeditated orchestrated
political attack by Republicans or the
result of a president lying under oath I
did not have sexual relations with that
woman the subject is still being debated
today as is the exact meaning of sexual
relations what is clear is that it
resulted in the impeachment of Clinton
though not his removal from office
it also exacerbated the extremely
partisan divide in America both in
government and among the electorate and
so tonight I ask you to turn away from
the spectacle of the past seven months
to repair the fabric of our national
discourse and to return our attention to
all the challenges and all the promise
of the next American Century before we
unveil our top pick here are a few
honorable mentions yeah we had two men’s
control over a lot of members of
Congress through raising money for them
through personal relationships by being
politically indispensible for them I
regard as indefensible the fact that I
did not report the action to the police
immediately
number one the Watergate scandal I first
learned from news reports of the
Watergate break-in as a political
scandal that actually brought down a
president Watergate was a Republican
orchestrated break-in
at the Democratic National Committee
headquarters in the Watergate office
building it eventually precipitated a
massive cover-up and a series of lies
and deceptions that destroyed the
Richard Nixon presidency therefore I
shall resign the presidency effective at
noon tomorrow Nixon resigned to prevent
his forced removal from office
forty-three other people were eventually
sentenced for their roles and missed
most defining of political scandals none
of us knew what was gonna happen next
today people like the president’s kind
of disappointing really our president
wept like an insane person and then got
in a helicopter and flew away and the
whole nation just watched him go do you
agree with our picks well I don’t know
anybody who has a better idea what
scandalous outrages would you have put
on the list if you didn’t see a scandal
you think should be on the list be sure
to check out our list of the top ten
infamous political sex scandals in the
United States and for more enthralling
top 10s published daily be sure to
subscribe to watchmojo.com thank you for
watching and good night
you
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