Thirty-six years ago today, police arrested five men who had broken into Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate hotel and office complex in Washington, DC. The burglars were working, secretly, for Richard Nixon’s re-election committee. They were discovered by a low-paid security guard named Frank Wills, just doing his job. Their arrest started the slow unraveling of the criminal enterprise known to history as the Nixon Administration.
Do you suppose it’s possible that someday the criminal enterprise known as the Bush-Cheney Administration will slip up and start a similar unraveling? It seems unlikely, though it’s not clear whether that’s because the Bush-Cheney team is so spectacularly good at covering their tracks, or because the current Congress is too timid to follow where those tracks would lead.
It would be a scandal if the nation forgot the lessons of Watergate. The scandal would be called Forget-gate.
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