United States Senate Watergate Committee

40 Years Later: The Watergate Hearings

Republicans kept up the pressure on the Obama administration this weekend  by calling for a special independent counsel to investigate the Justice Department’s monitoring of journalists’ records and the I.R.S.’s targeting of right-wing groups. Talk of overreach and possible criminality have led some in the G.O.P. to make perhaps tenuous comparisons to events 40 years ago. […]