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Related: About this forumWoodward disappoints Republicans: Benghazi ‘is not Watergate’
By Stephen C. WebsterSunday, May 19, 2013 20:36 EDT
Appearing Sundays on Meet the Press, Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward disappointed Republicans who very much want the attack on U.S. personnel in Libya to bring down President Barack Obama much like the Watergate scandal brought down President Richard Nixon, telling host David Gregory that what happened in Benghazi is not Watergate or even close.
First of all, people are making comparisons to Watergate, he said. This is not Watergate. But there are some people in the administration who have acted as if they want to be Nixonian, and thats a very big problem.
He went on to say that information from the Central Intelligence Agency initially suggested the involvement of organized militants, thus reason for the surprise when the administrations initial statements focused on protests across the region over an amateur anti-Islamic film.
This is a business where you have to tell the truth and that did not happen here, he said.
President Barack Obama has continually insisted that the attack on the embassy in Benghazi was an act of terrorism that will be fully investigated. Republicans, meanwhile, suggest there was some sort of scandal to cover-up the real version of events, which the government discussed in detail three days after the fact.
Who executes some sort of cover-up or effort to tamp things down for three days? Obama asked Monday. So the whole thing defies logic. Weve got a whole bunch of people in the State Department who consistently say, You know what, Im willing to step up, Im willing to put myself in harms way because I think this mission is important in terms of serving the United States and advancing our interests around the globe. And so we dishonor them when we turn things like this into a political circus.
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Woodward disappoints Republicans: Benghazi ‘is not Watergate’ (Original Post)
DonViejo
May 2013
OP
There's a famous scene in "All the President's Men" where Woodward admits he's a Republican
Arugula Latte
May 2013
#9
gordianot
(15,238 posts)1. Seriously what planet is Woodward from? Is he stuck in a time space wormhole?
Is this what dementia does to you? Has he always been someones shill?
Jennicut
(25,415 posts)7. He got old. It happens.
Lost his common sense.
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)9. There's a famous scene in "All the President's Men" where Woodward admits he's a Republican
and Bernstein/Hoffman shoots him a look like, "you've got to be fucking kidding me..."
kairos12
(12,861 posts)2. He is an idiot who lost all credibility with his ass kissing tomes he wrote about Shrub
DCBob
(24,689 posts)3. Just a few days ago I thought he said it was like Watergate.
marshall
(6,665 posts)13. I think he was talking about The IRS scandal
He's been shuffled out to talk about all the embroiling "gates" in Washington.
AtomicKitten
(46,585 posts)4. It's surreal to see a once gonzo journalist
devolve into the insipid douchenozzle he has become.
Cha
(297,220 posts)5. Woodward's "big problem" is
he still thinks Gene Sperling is out to Get him.
Whimphead.
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)8. Lil' Bobby saw the air coming out of the rightwing scandal balloon
so he's taking a step back.
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)12. Benghazi is something set up by Republicans