OPINION:
On June 17, 1972, five men broke into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington. The resulting investigation led to the impeachment and eventual resignation of President Richard Nixon. No one lost their life, no national security concerns were in play, jihad was not a factor and justice was served.
Flash forward 43 years to Hillary Rodham Clinton’s testimony before the committee on Benghazi. As she smirked, glared and, with head in hand, feigned boredom with all this gratuitous hubbub about a dead ambassador and three security-team members, the world got a good dose of the Clinton arrogance and contrived superiority.
Mrs. Clinton breathes the rarified air only accessible to those who fly above the rules, regulations and other legal stipulations the rest of us are obliged to observe. She appeared confident that all these ’manufactured,’ ’politically motivated,’ ’profoundly unjust’ allegations regarding her involvement in the deaths of these unfortunate men would pass, leaving her free to tread a return path to the White House with husband Bimbo Bubba in tow. How exciting to contemplate a reprise of the Clinton magic at the helm of our ship of state.
If justice is served, Mrs. Clinton will never see the inside of the Oval Office and we will not have to endure the reality of these two most distasteful characters occupying the people’s house. With all this in mind, one has to ask: What is it about Watergate that transcends the gravity of Benghazi?
JOHN M. DANIEL
Leonardtown, Md.
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