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Using clips from the 1973 Watergate hearings, MSNBC’s Last Word host Lawrence O’Donnell went off on Wednesday at the House Select Committee on Benghazi for failing to exhibit the Watergate committee’s professionalism and instead being “oblivious and uninhibited” in creating a hearing that he promises will “waste enormous amounts of time on irrelevant questions.”
Applauding then-Republican counsel Fred Thompson and then-Democratic counsel Sam Dash for being “bipartisan, professional, respectful, and cooperative” in questioning Nixon aide Alexander Butterfield, O’Donnell guaranteed that will not been applicable on Thursday to the members of Congress questioning Hillary Clinton.