#DuffyTrial...Did The Cover-Up Come Before The Crime?

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The NaPo's Andrew Coyne, whose reading of the Email trail leads him to conclude that the pay-off was invoked to ensure that the co-optation of both the Senators and the audit remained a secret, seems to think so:

...It wasn’t just on his housing expenses that Duffy wished to be absolved of any wrongdoing. The emails from his lawyer are explicit in demanding that all of his expenses be found “in order.” It wasn’t enough that the auditors should punt on the housing allowance question. The audit had to be called off altogether. And there was yet a third demand: the government was to promise not to refer Duffy’s expenses to the RCMP.

It is to the credit of Wright and his co-conspirators that none of these demands were met. It is very much less to their credit that the rest of the fraudulent scheme went ahead. The decision to pay Duffy’s expenses, on its own, might be written off as an error of judgment or even, as Wright would have it, a good-faith attempt to return the money to the taxpayer.

But once it is seen as part and parcel of a broader effort to tamper with a supposedly independent audit, to rewrite a (Senate) committee report and hoodwink the public, it takes on a rather darker hue...


All of which is bad enough, and pre-emptively Nixonian, in and of itself.

But Mr. Coyne, at least in this piece, refuses to step into the real CREEP(M)y abyss.

Which is that deep, dark place where the Plumber-in-Chief's Senators were systematically strip mining the country to fill the CPC's massive campaign war-chest.

And doing so on the public's dime.

OK?


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