Incuriosity - GOP/Hastert Failure to Investigate

[TahitiNut]

"Nobody told me."
"Nobody could have known they'd hijack..."

It is necessary to listen very closely to the throne-sitters when they proclaim ignorance as their virtue and understand that a failure to investigate and a failure to instruct staff to even notify them of "concerns being raised" is a pattern of covering up complicity and managing their own direct knowledge in a manner that seeks plausible deniability.

As I posted into the eye of the DU Foleygasm, deliberate and pre-planned ignorance is no excuse! In a just system, no authority should be granted without a commensurate assignment of responsibility. People in positions of authority have a duty to be curious, a duty to investigate, a duty to learn, and a duty to act. When it's clearly and abundantly shown that the information was available and almost beating down the door to the Speaker's Office, his denial of knowledge is an admission of guilt.

"I didn't know" what was known is a crime of complicity through inaction and incuriosity on the part of a person in charge; in a position of responsibility, in a position of authority.

This needs to be thoroughly comprehended. "Plausible deniability" CANNOT be a defense - it's the Hallmark of Corruption!

[MadMaddie]

1. You have nailed it.......this is their whole schtick....

Is America sick of this shit yet?

[TahitiNut]

2. Our 'corporate media' seems totally clueless regarding this.

They have ALL the pieces necessary to show a deliberate disregard and a total failure to do one's duty on the part of the GOP House 'Leadership.'

Instead ... they're spinning their wheels on "when did he know" it was serious. That's the wrong question. The real question is "when WAS IT KNOWABLE" if even the simplest of investigations - asking pages, not page turners - had been undertaken. Malicious neglect is ethically corrupt.

[redqueen]

4. Yeah, I'm sure it's totally by accident, too... that whole

missing the point thing.

I bet the only reason Project Mockingbird is said to be over is 'cause it's being run under a new project name, now.

[redqueen]

3. *points to someone else*

The ball was in their court... I thought they were on top of it. I told 'em... I thought they were doing such and such a thing.

Party of accountability my ass!

[TahitiNut]

5. By his own admission, he never got off his ass and checked into it.

This is what's frustrating. He has admitted criminal neglect. He had a duty to follow up and act from an abundance of caution for the welfare of minors. He didn't. He had reason to do so and didn't. That's criminal.

It is NOT sufficient to sit on his throne and await imperiously for petitioners. (It's too easy to have his courtiers keep the petitioners away from the throne and be fall-guys for the autocrat.) He had a personal duty to ensure that he got the information he needed. He didn't.

Deliberate ignorance isn't just stupid. It's criminally malfeasant.

[redqueen]

6. Same goes for Rice... and many more.

Think anyone in the media will say so?

HAH!

[TahitiNut]

7. The Politics of Deliberate Ignorance - Politics of Plausible Denial

This is criminality and corruption. It has been shown over and over and over ... and it's criminal. Nothing else need be shown at this point to proceed to prosecute these corrupt bastards. It's not just "what did they know and when did they know it?" but "what did they avoid knowing and who benefited?"

[redqueen]

8. Exactly! QUI BONO?!

Even the FBI is in on the game...
http://atrios.blogspot.com/2006_10_01_atrios_archive.html#116006514090815610

[TahitiNut]

9. Cui bono: "Who benefits?"

Cui bono is still a standard rule applied in criminal investigations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cui_bono

[redqueen]

11. Stupid spelling... that's what I meant :)

Oh, if only we had more honest journalists...

[TahitiNut]

12. I know. I wasn't quibbling as much as I was ...

... pointing out that it's very relevant to CRIMINAL investiagtions and prosecutions, particularly in organized crime - which is the best description of the Bushoilini Regime. Organized crime on a global scale.

[TahitiNut]

10. ... and DUers continue to sniff Foley's crotch.

A failure to make this deliberate disregard for the saftey of minors emblematic of the GOP willful ignorance and the kabuki of plausible deniability is symptomatic of the dumbing down of the people in this country. All the pieces are there. Unless the Left wraps them up with a pretty bow and make it clear, they don't deserve to win in November. It won't get any better than this.

:grr: :argh: :grr: :argh: :grr: :argh: :grr:

[redqueen]

13. Sex sells.

It grabs your attention.

Perhaps over the coming weeks, as the scent of the sex and resultant frenzy dies down, we can accentuate the more significant parts of this story. It will help to keep it alive, perhaps...