C-SPAN Flashes Back to Watergate Hearings

摘要

The echoes of the Watergate hearings more than 30 years ago were unmistakable when the House Judiciary Committee opened its own hearings last Friday on allegations that the White House obstructed justice and manipulated the media in making its case to invade Iraq. And if you watched the hearings on C-SPAN, you might've wondered if the public-affairs network was trying to play up those parallels. Just before the network began carrying the hearings on C-SPAN 3, the channel was rerunning a 1994 forum called Watergate: Corruption of American Politics.