“There's this old line the wise folks in Washington have that "it's not the crime, but the cover-up."But only fools believe that. It's always about the crime. The whole point of the cover-up is that a full revelation of the underlying crime is not survivable.”
Talking Points Memo (2007-03-26) http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/013271.php
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Josh Marshall 7
American journalist 1969Related quotes
“As crimes pile up, they become invisible.”
Source: The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976), Chapter 5, Unstable America, p. 189
Source: The Golden Bough (1890), Chapter 29, The Myth of Adonis
The Meaning of the Russian Revolution (1906), a work about the 1905 Russian Revolution.
Context: Not only does the action of Governments not deter men from crimes; on the contrary, it increases crime by always disturbing and lowering the moral standard of society. Nor can this be otherwise, since always and everywhere a Government, by its very nature, must put in the place of the highest, eternal, religious law (not written in books but in the hearts of men, and binding on every one) its own unjust, man-made laws, the object of which is neither justice nor the common good of all but various considerations of home and foreign expediency.
VI. Law and Communication. p. 110
The Human Use of Human Beings (1950)
Spillane on Jim McGuinness. His team won the 2012 All-Ireland. The Irish Times https://archive.is/20121208223707/www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/sport/2012/0827/1224323032489.html
1960s, The Role of the Behavioral Scientist in the Civil Rights Movement (1967)
Context: A profound judgment of today's riots was expressed by Victor Hugo a century ago. He said, 'If a soul is left in the darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.' / The policymakers of the white society have caused the darkness; they create discrimination; they structured slums; and they perpetuate unemployment, ignorance and poverty. It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society. When we ask Negroes to abide by the law, let us also demand that the white man abide by law in the ghettos.
Chapter VIII https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929, Aftermath II, Section VI, p 165
The Great Crash, 1929 (1954 and 1997 https://openlibrary.org/books/OL25728842M/The_Great_Crash_1929)