Damn, Rob has caught me out! Send a team to liquidate him.

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I think it's crazy the way you guys wait for the people who are doing you wrong to admit it to you.
Looking at the Iran-Contra Scandal, or Watergate, I'm minded to agree with you (on that comment only!). But then, look at one of the advantages of a free press: Bob Woodward's book Shadow says that Americans generally lost a huge amount of faith in their government after Nixon (which might explain why you feel this way in the first place, Jack), with the collateral result that the media is very aggressive in seeking out faults in government. Woodward draws the lack of parallel between JFK boffing Tweedledee and Tweedledum (the FBI code names for two college girls) and the fact that the press respected his privacy and didn't breathe a word of it, and Clinton - Lewinsky.

My point is that the American press would be looking very hard at the cause of this, even in the current bubble of patriotism. Organisations with more resources than you or I have delved into this - it would be the story of the century if it was true, and would make a reporter's career. But, not a word form the mainstream press.