Whay so many don't understand or won't admit:

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9. Exactly why the effort against Nixon should have gone forward

as so many of us have said here before. Because they "cut a deal" to avoid prosecution by having him resign with the promise that they wouldn't prosecute for his crimes once he left office it forged the pathway for subsequent people like Reagan and Bush. They began to act with impunity knowing they could do a combination of laying it off on others while claiming ignorance and the canard of executive privilege. Then after the underlings are convicted they pardon them on the way out the door and then go write their memoirs.

The plain fact is that Nixon, Kissinger, Reagan and Bush were responsible for the death squads in Central America that killed thousands of innocent people. The terror and intimidation was their point. Even if they could claim not knowing about the initial killings they have no defense for continuing to support those death squads subsequent to knowing they had committed these acts. They poured in money, weapons and training.