Why should Lindsey Graham let it go?

In response to renewed calls from the public for examination of the Benghazi coverup, voices on the left have urged senator Lindsey Graham and others who persist in holding the Obama administration to account to just “let it go.”

If you think about it, that’s a lot of chutzpah from people who, forty years down the line, still utterly demonize President Richard Nixon for Watergate (it wasn’t the crime, but the coverup!) Nixon and his people lied about a break-in of Democratic Party headquarters, but no one died in that break-in. In the case of Benghazi, it would appear that Obama and his aides concocted a story about how four U.S. citizens died so as to cover up the lack of security at the U.S. embassy in Benghazi, Libya on the tenth anniversary of the attacks of September 11th.

But Graham won’t back down. Did liberals in the 70’s “let go” of Watergate because it became an old story, in the interest of getting on with other matters? Or did they insist on holding the President accountable for lying to the American people about an issue of substance? While no one is arguing Obama or anyone in his administration had anything to do with the Benghazi attack (unlike Watergate, in which I think Nixon authorized the break-in), the actual incident was far more severe: a deadly breach of national security on one of the most potentially dangerous days of the year.

This entry was written by Heather Robinson and posted on November 15, 2013 at 5:01 pm and filed under Blog. permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Keywords: . Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL. */?>