Omerta has become the final bond holding the Bush administration together
The three stooges
Salon
by Sidney Blumenthal
08/02/07
Omerta (or a code of silence) has become the final bond holding the Bush administration together. Honesty is dishonorable; silence is manly; penitence is weakness. Loyalty trumps law. Protecting higher-ups is patriotism. Stonewalling is idealism. Telling the truth is informing. Cooperation with investigators is cowardice; breaking the code is betrayal. Once the code is shattered, however, no one can be trusted and the entire edifice crumbles. If Attorney General Alberto Gonzales were miraculously to tell the truth, or if he were to resign or be removed, the secret government of the past six years would be unlocked...
http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/08/02/alberto_gonzales/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gonzales
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sidney+Blumenthal
Salon
by Sidney Blumenthal
08/02/07
Omerta (or a code of silence) has become the final bond holding the Bush administration together. Honesty is dishonorable; silence is manly; penitence is weakness. Loyalty trumps law. Protecting higher-ups is patriotism. Stonewalling is idealism. Telling the truth is informing. Cooperation with investigators is cowardice; breaking the code is betrayal. Once the code is shattered, however, no one can be trusted and the entire edifice crumbles. If Attorney General Alberto Gonzales were miraculously to tell the truth, or if he were to resign or be removed, the secret government of the past six years would be unlocked...
http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/08/02/alberto_gonzales/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gonzales
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sidney+Blumenthal
rudkla - 2. Aug, 14:17
