Worse than Watergate

John W. Dean · first published 2004 · ISBN 9780316000239

John W. Dean, who served as legal counsel during Watergate, applies his firsthand experience to critique the Bush administration's systematic lack of transparency. He argues that presidential decisions on the Iraq War violated congressional constraints in ways that warrant impeachment consideration. Dean synthesizes publicly available evidence to construct a case showing how executive overreach during 2003-2004 resembled the institutional decay he witnessed under Nixon.