Charles Krauthammer "Note to GOP re Benghazi: Stop calling it Watergate, Iran-contra, bigger than both, etc. First, it might well be, but we don’t know. History will judge. Second, overhyping will only diminish the importance of the scandal if it doesn’t meet presidency-breaking standards. Third, focusing on the political effects simply plays into the hands of
Democrats desperately claiming that this is nothing but partisan politics.
"Let the facts speak for themselves. They are damning enough. Let
Gregory Hicks, the honorable, apolitical second-in-command that night in Libya, movingly and grippingly demolish
the president’s Benghazi mantra that “what I have always tried to do is just get all the facts” and “every piece of information that we got, as we got it, we laid it out for the American people”.
"On the contrary. Far from assiduously gathering and releasing information, the administration was assiduously trying to control and suppress it."..... (Emphasis added)