Benghazi Highlights the Most Commonly Ignored History Lesson: It's Not the Crime; It's the Cover-up

What are the lessons to be learned from this Benghazi mess?  

At this point, that's not completely clear.

What is clear is that the Obama Administration put politics above the safety of its people and put political considerations ahead of the truth.

How many times must politicians learn the lessons of Watergate:  

The cover-up is almost always worse than the actual misdeed.  

If President Richard Nixon had come clean in the early days of that scandal, it would have been a blemish on his presidency, but he would not have faced impeachment and certainly would not have been forced to resign.

It is a simple, simple lesson, yet our so-called "leaders" seemed destined to repeat history over and over because they always think they're different somehow, that the most basic of political truisms don't apply to them.

And then, they get burned.

Does President Obama himself hold personal responsibility for the mistakes of Benghazi?  We'll probably never know, but the buck stops with him as the Commander in Chief and Head of State.  He might not have made the Benghazi mistakes, but his appointees did, and therefore he is forever tied to those mistakes.

Could military forces have arrived in Benghazi in time to save American lives under terrorist attack?  We'll probably never know that either.

What we DO know is that the politics-first crowd of Obama Administration personnel sought to portray what was clearly a terrorist attack on Americans in Benghazi as an impromptu protest spurred by a little-known YouTube video rather than admit that a terrorist attack on an American embassy cost American lives on Obama's watch.

It's not the deed . . . It's the cover-up that gets you.

Why is this so hard to comprehend?