The Watergate scandal was a political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970s as a result of the June 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C., and the Nixon administration's attempted cover-up of its involvement. The scandal eventually led to the resignation of Richard Nixon, the President of the United States, on August 9, 1974, the only resignation of a U.S. President. The scandal also resulted in the indictment, trial, conviction and incarceration of 43 people, including dozens of Nixon's top administration officials.Reporters at The Washington Post would be wise to dig into the attack at Benghazi as deeply as they did the Watergate break-in. I say, go WaPo! Beat Drudge on this one! How are you going to feel watching Jennifer Griffin and Catherine Herridge of that dreadful "Faux" News Channel accept those Edward R. Murrow awards when it's yours for the taking?
re: “The Watergate scandal was a political scandal that occurred in the United States in the 1970s as a result of the June 1972 break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate office complex in Washington, D.C., and the Nixon administration’s attempted cover-up of its involvement. The scandal eventually led to the resignation of Richard Nixon, the President of the United States, on August 9, 1974, the only resignation of a U.S. President.”
The break-in occurred in 1972 and it took two years to eventually move things to the point that Nixon either had to face a real trial, or resign.
I don’t have much hope that the same thing will happen here, but just as with the Watergate scandal, it took time to build the case that Nixon was undeniably involved. The scandal did not hit the fan overnight. It kept percolating in the background until it could not be ignored. Of course, the media was hell-bent on getting rid of Nixon at the time - totally opposite of the media’s intent now.
However, with the WaPo publicly coming on board that Obama did indeed know that Al Qaida was behind the attack and not that stupid video prior to Rice’s TV appearances - this MIGHT be a first step toward this developing into something.
Of course the next key questions are - did the Ambassador and the CIA agents killed request military assistance? If they did then why was none sent, and who told the assets to “stand down”?
I think if these questions are actually pursued and it is demonstrated to most of the American people that military help was deliberately withheld after being requested three times, then maybe something may come of this. An impeachment and resignation? It should but who knows anymore with the idiots we have running things, and the “Obamaphone-iacs” who make up the electorate today.