Is This Obama’s “Watergate?”

 Most who weren’t alive during the early 1970s (and many who were) could not tell you what Watergate was all about, just that it had something to do with the President of the United States of America resigning his office, something that had never happened (before or since).
 Without going into great detail (Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein’s All The President’s Men is the gold-standard), “Watergate” refers to the Watergate Hotel and Office Building in Washington D.C., which among other things, housed the offices of the Democratic National Committee. One night in 1972, a hotel security guard caught a group of burglars inside those offices. As the story unfolded, it was learned that the burglars were there at the behest of President Richard M. Nixon’s reelection committee — in fact, one of the burglars worked directly for the committee. In this case, ca-ca flowed uphill and President Nixon sealed his own fate by getting directly involved in trying to cover up the connection after he learned of it (Catch-phrase of the day: “What did the President know and when did he know it?”).
 Two years after the burglary and facing certain impeachment by the House and conviction by the Senate, Nixon resigned. What is unfolding now has many wondering if history is repeating itself.

 The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (BATFE, or more commonly, ATF) has more or less been caught red-handed intentionally sending weapons across the border into Mexico, weapons that they were supposed to be stopping. Known variously as “Gunwalker” or “Gunrunner,” the official ATF name for the project appears to be “Fast and Furious”…having never seen the movie(s) of the same name, the connection is lost on me.
 Without getting into the details, insiders are blowing whistles and a Congressional investigation has ATF and other Justice Department honchos stonewalling and circling the wagons. It now appears that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder may have at least known about the project and did nothing to stop it. The only step up the ladder from there goes directly to the Oval Office.
 There is more to discuss on this subject (including the possibility of a much more sinister motive for the project than catching druggies), but for now I just wonder how long it will be before we hear people in positions of power channeling Senator Sam Ervin — “What did the President know and when did he know it?”