Posted on 05/17/2013 5:42:50 AM PDT by Bigtigermike
On TV this morning, Bob Woodward made the case for not dismissing Benghazi and compared the scandal to Watergate:
"You were talking earlier about kind of dismissing the Benghazi issue as one that's just political and the president recently said it's a sideshow," said Woodward. "But if you read through all these e-mails, you see that everyone in the government is saying, 'Oh, let's not tell the public that terrorists were involved, people connected to al Qaeda. Let's not tell the public that there were warnings.' I hate to show, this is one of the documents with the editing that one of the people in the state department said, 'Oh, let's not let these things out.' And I have to go back 40 years to Watergate when Nixon put out his edited transcripts to the conversations, and he personally went through them and said, 'Oh, let's not tell this, let's not show this.' I would not dismiss Benghazi. It's a very serious issue. As people keep saying, four people were killed. You look at the hydraulic pressure that was in the system to not tell the truth, and, you know, we use this term and the government uses this term, talking points. Talking points, as we know, are like legal briefs. They're an argument on one side. What we need to get rid of talking point and they need to put out statements or papers that are truth documents
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Benghazi isn’t similar to watergate. In many ways its worse but is not remotely similar.
The IRS thing is similar to watergate.
Tick tock.
Wait until he finds he and his family and friends have
been wiretapped without authorization.
IRS is closer to the infamous Watergate scandal. This is simply voter fraud in action.
God Bless Woodard.
This is nothing like Watergate!
A “similar” scenario would involve an embattled Republican president vs the bloodthirsty Marxist RATagandists.
Did anybody see Jerry Rivers this morning.
“Obama is probably innocent, its rogue bureaucrats, this shouldn’t harm Obamacare”.
I cannot tolerate Jerry Rivers, change channels when he comes on the TV. Also Karl Rove.
Then do something about it Bobby...
Woodward has such an astute investigative mind.
Tell us Bob, what four U. S. Diplomats and foreign service officers died in a terrorist attack during Watergate that led to the resignation of Nixon?
F’n bastard!
Standing alone against the powerful and corrupt doesn’t seem to bother Woodward... he’s in my prayers.
It looks like the credibilities of Woodward and Bernstein have diverged.
Perhaps Woodward knows the whole story - that which is only whispered in Washington. I personally suspect that one day we’ll learn that Romney did, in fact, win; that conservatives did turn out in droves and the O and his party stole the election via fraud in key states...
Not according to the new media. They will hammer, hammer, and hammer away ongoing.
I'll wait till Woodward Publishes his findings, in either a book, or a series of truth-laden articles.
Until then, he's a Democrat propagandist, nothing more, nothing less.
No one was killed due to Watergate. It was a simple break-in. Not even remotely similar - Benghazi is much, much worse.
Please stop being a nattering nabob of negativism...
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