Quotes About Cover-up

Reporters were ill paid in those days and lacked the resources in staff or money to dig deeply into McCarthy's charges. The Washington press corps was small. It was not until later, amid growing anger about a cover-up during the Vietnam War, that significant numbers of reporters became obstreperous in challenging official sources. Only in the 1970s, in the aftermath of Watergate, did this attitude become widespread among political journalists in the United States.

Ervin's committee opened televised hearings on the matter in May, enabling the public to watch McCord accuse Dean and Mitchell of foreknowledge of the break-in, and Mitchell and Magruder of authorizing it. Testimony before the Ervin Committee that summer, especially by Dean, broke further news of the plumbers, of the Huston plan to abuse the powers of the FBI and the CIA, of presidential wiretapping, and of Nixon's authorization of hush money in order to seal the cover-up.

Varnish and gilding hide many stains.

Yeah, it's a cover-up," Nixon said. "The cover-up is worse than whatever comes out. It really is—unless somebody is going to jail.

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

Thank God for our form of government. The media won't let there be any cover-up.

Her words were like tinfoil; they shone and they covered things up.

Respect is an invention of people who want to cover up the empty place where love should be.

Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else." Then let's be quiet together.

I'm prone to getting dark circles under my eyes when I'm tired, so I l use cover-up and instantly feel more confident.

Lucy frowned. "What's the Three-S rule?" "Shoot, shovel and shut up.

The land had a way of covering the wrongs of people.

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The other half are blissfully unaware that the reality is stranger than science fiction, and that they have been consistently misinformed and lied to by a government that has engineered one of the most successful cover-ups in history.

You didn't have to wash it as often and it hid the blood stains better!

holes in the mayor's office.

A small lie needs a bodyguard of bigger lies to protect it.

The truth deserves a bodyguard of lies.

Either Plato and Xenophon are involved in a massive cover-up, or there were factors peculiar to Athenian State religion which make Socrates guilty as charged. We can only hope that the former alternative is not the case, since Plato's and Xenophon's accounts are practically our only evidence on Socrates' views.

senior administrators within the CIA participated in plausible denial and other disinformation and cover-up strategies concerning CIA operations run on U.S. soil. Like

History's what people are trying to hide from you, not what they're trying to show you. You search for it in the same way you sift through a landfill: for evidence of what people want to bury.

You don't realize how much effort you've put into covering things up until you dig them out.

You don't realize how much effort you've put into covering things up until you try to dig them out.

Like most disguises, the cover-up was worse than honest flaw, a lesson I had yet to register on my own account.