Getting away with murder

"Only in America, only in this day of age, can the guilty look innocent and the investigators look guilty..."

Because of my age, I remember the OJ Simpson trial. Many of us do. The gruesome sight in 1994 of two people in LA with their throats slit so deeply, they were almost decapitated. The low speed chase in the white Bronco through the streets of LA. The mountain of evidence that OJ himself did the deed. And then the trial. Where OJ used his tremendous wealth to "lawyer up" with only the best. And as we know, the rest is history. He walked. Got away with murder in the first.

Now flash forward to this month. The Benghazi hearings. Unlike the OJ trial, this is not about a double murder. It is about a quadruple murder. And unlike the OJ trial, the people (or person) who actually committed this murder in not the focus of these hearings. However the people who practiced malfeasance and neglect are. And like the OJ trial, there are plenty of breadcrumbs leading to the guilty party(s).

In the hearings so far, what have we learned? Unlike Watergate (that ironically Hillary was a part of - only sitting on the investigative side rather than the investigated),  the Democrats are asking only one tough question. And that is of the Republicans. "Why are we wasting all this money going after Secretary Clinton? This is all political - a witch hunt!"

During Watergate, the Republicans on the panel were just as hard on the Administration as were the Democrats. But that was then. When we had real Democrats. And yes, real Republicans also.

Other than that, nothing has been learned. What I do know is this. If this had happened under the Bush Administration, both sides of the aisle would be asking tough questions. And the Democrats would probably be asking for impeachment of the President himself. The main stream media would (as usual) be siding with the Democrats looking for justice and scalps. However in this universe, where we have this inept and corrupt Administration along with a do nothing Justice Department, the guilty will skate and the investigators will be villified. 

So that is the story of this tune. Chairman Gowdy said there are up to 70 more witnesses he would like to call in front of the committee. My guess is that Cummings will throw a fit, get the press to support him on it, and the hearings will end with a whimper. And like the OJ trial, justice will once again be blinded. 

Speaking as only one American, I would like to apologize to the families of Ambassador Chris Stephens, Sean Smith, Tyrone Woods, and Glen Doherty. These men were victims of something even worse than the enemies who killed them. They were left behind. Left behind by a country who does not leave people behind. They died abandoned by the country, by the Administration who was supposed to protect and defend them. And that is the crime worth investigating.