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.
That has people wondering whether somebody in the administration imposed national security classifications on information that had nothing to do with protecting sources and methods, or even diplomatic relations, and everything to do with a political coverup.
If the President were not involved, if an ordinary citizen were the subject of the inquiry, no serious consideration would be given to a criminal prosecution arising from alleged misconduct in discovery in the Jones civil case having to do with an alleged coverup of a private sexual affair with another woman or the follow-on testimony before the grand jury.
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.
Now, in the aftermath, the administration has claimed that the CIA was totally to blame and the CIA has basically acquiesced in that coverup.
"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.
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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