June 25, 2008 4:14PM 

# Waivers 

By [Benjamin H. Friedman](https://www.cato.org/people/benjamin-friedman) 

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Reading Tim Lee on [FISA](https://www.cato.org/2008/06/25/fisa-face-saving/), I had a historical revelation. We could have avoided the long national nightmare of Watergate if only the burglars had carried letters from President Nixon stating that John Dean had determined that they had a legal right to trespass.

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