Mr. Tygart told Mr. Armstrong he stood accused of offenses that stretched beyond doping to a coverup marked by nearly 15 years of denials, threats and actions against anyone who told the truth about doping on the team.

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In the months that I spent talking with people in Braintree, I came to believe that there had indeed been a coverup, but that it had been an act not of conspiracy but of compassion.

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Now, in the aftermath, the administration has claimed that the CIA was totally to blame and the CIA has basically acquiesced in that coverup.

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"I told him that it was in his best interest to be totally cooperative -- that it's often the coverup that causes more problems than the original malfeasance, " the senator said.

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Mr. Jay asked Mr. Murdoch if he had a "cavalier" attitude to corporate governance in relation to phone hacking and added that there had been a "consistent theme" of a coverup at the company about the extent of the paper's wrongdoing, which first publicly surfaced in 2006.

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"Les Hinton was complicit in the coverup at News International, which included making misleading statements and giving a misleading picture to this Committee, " the report said.

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