The parallels to Watergate are rather eerie. Recall that the break-in occurred prior to Nixon winning re-election handily, he himself didn't hire the plumbers, set up the laundering bank accounts, pay the slush fund monies. All that was done by underlings, aides, etc., and Nixon did not lose his political clout, was not forced to resign the day after the plumbers were arrested.
It took time for the whole mess to be uncovered, Nixon's role obvious from the discussions he had with Haldeman and Erlichman. He was too arrogant, taping his confessions, as it were, the way he did, never believing anyone would admit to the taping system or that the taped conversations would be subject to Congressional scrutiny, thus made public.
Will 0bama and his aides have discussions, how to control all the players involved, keep everyone in line? Will the issuance of pardons in order to keep people quiet be ruminated? Will these men be smart enough to have learned from history, they will NOT tape, make a paper trail, they will leave no evidence whatsoever of their conversations?
The difference here today, however, is that unlike with Nixon, the press is not going to hound the 0bama Administration day in and day out, we're not going to have modern-day Woodward and Bernstein to ferret out this and that, follow the trails, enlist a Deep Throat's assistance, I'm doubting that Congress will feel the need to investigate these matters, unless Fitzgerald keeps turning over the refuse, cockroaches scatter and more names are named, we actually do start up a ladder.
Only time will tell.
