Two words -- Iran-Contra -- and any threat from that quarter is over and done with.
There is something else-- something far more serious -- driving this cover-up. Personally, I'm thinking it might've been a planned kidnapping of an American Ambassador, morphing into a swap for the Blind Sheikh immediately prior to the election.
But, when the Ambassador turned up dead, "the video did it" became Plan B.
Most of the people in this country either (a) don’t remember Iran-Contra or (b) weren’t even born then.