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John Dean: "We Have Returned To the Imperial Presidency"

LOS ANGELES - John Dean, the White House lawyer who famously helped blow the whistle on the Watergate scandal that drove Richard Nixon from office, says the country has returned to an "imperial presidency" that is putting the United States and the world at risk.

"Are we on the road to fascism?" he writes. "Clearly, we are not on that road yet. But it would not take much more misguided authoritarian leadership, or thoughtless following of such leaders, to find ourselves there."I am not sure which is more frightening," he adds, "another major terror attack or the response of authoritarian conservatives to that attack."

"We have returned to the imperial presidency," he said. "We have an unchecked presidency."

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