"Lone Nutters" or "Tinfoil-Hat Conspiracy Theorists"?

[Tom Graves]

Watergate was a small and simple conspiracy to begin with.  It came unraveled even with the sitting president doing everything to keep a lid on it.

President Nixon set up The Plumbers group in response to a claim by Kremlin-loyal FBI "informant" Aleksei Kulak (J. Edgar Hoover's shielded-from-CIA FEDORA) that the Kremlin had a complete copy of the Pentagon Papers (it didn't).

[Tom Graves]

A couple of years ago the right-wing commentator Glenn Beck had the left-wing conspiracy advocate Jefferson Morley on his show. Morley persuaded Beck that the CIA was behind the assassination, that James Angleton and the CIA's counterintelligence operations manipulated/used an unwitting Oswald as part of a covert program to embarrass the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. It's all a giant Rube Goldberg conspiracy explanation that is absent the mouse traps and bells and whistles. He's making it all up. Beck believed it. It's here where the sort of anti-government Right and Left come together.

It's very Hegelian, isn't it?