In which inquiry into which institution (and, for a bonus point, when) were the following failings reported? – warnings or concerns raised by junior staff were ignored or hidden away – senior staff and colleagues were aware but turned a blind eye – complainants, both internal and external, were treated as troublemakers – a tendency… Read more »
Senator Howard Baker’s question: “What did the President know and when did he know it?” went to the heart of the Watergate scandal. But it was another question, asked almost as an aside, which provided the damning evidence: the question to Alexander Butterfield, a Nixon aide, about whether, in addition to the taped instructions… Read more »
Scandals and misconduct do not come out of nowhere. When people misbehave there is usually a clue, often more than one, usually ignored (even if carefully collected and correctly filed) or hand-waved away as unimportant (see the Angiolini Report on Wayne Couzens, for instance). The same applies to scandals involving organisations and actions (or a… Read more »