Back to the future in Washington?

Thirty-nine years ago this month, (May 1973) the US Senate opened hearings of a Select Committee convened to investigate the Watergate burglaries and ensuing attempts at cover-up.  The crime was not so much the two bit burglary of a political opponent's offices --- the crime was the lies and deceits employed to cover-up that burglary ...................... all the way to the Oval Office.

The rest, as they say -- is history. Little known names became historic figures...  Chairman Sam Ervin (D), Howard Baker (R), Fred Thompson, John Dean (with his 'Cancer of the Presidency' phrase)... heck, even the fired (for lying and unethical practices?) Dem committee counsel, a young lady lawyer with coke bottle glasses named Hillary Rodham became part of history.

Now fast forward to 2014, the Speaker of the House has announced that he is creating a Select Committee to Investigate the Possible Cover-up of the Benghazi attack and murder of our Ambassador and three other good Americans.  Obviously with Dingy Harry running the Senate, they aren't going to do it.  

We'll watch as events unfold, as facts come out of the  dark night of a Libyan Al Qaeda attack.  But mostly, we'll wait and watch to find out exactly how involved the POTUS and Secretary of State were in the attempted cover-up of this incident just two months before the 2012 presidential election campaign. 

Some questions I hope to hear answered:   Why did the Ambassador make an unscheduled visit to that CIA safe house in Benghazi that evening. Who specifically, gave the 'stand down' order to the military. Where was the the POTUS if he wasn't in the Situation Room in the White House that night? What was Secretary of State and the CIA's involvement....

August is historically a tough month in Washington..... Congress is adjourned, the press are bored, the streets are hot and muggy, and it's just three months before the Mid-term elections.... a lot of Republicans can smell blood in the air and fear on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue.  

If Bill Bradlee and the Washington Post get credit for keeping the Watergate story alive 39 years ago, then certainly Fox News and James Rosen deserve credit for keeping our attention on Benghazi murders. 

Stay tuned?