White House SOP for *insert scandal/cover-up here*

[sirs]

Step 1: “We’re just finding out about this ourselves and are as appalled as anyone over these allegations. We vow to get to the bottom of this and, if true, right this wrong swiftly and thoroughly. Nothing less than the honor of our nation and our people is at stake, and that will not come to harm on my watch.”

Step 2: “We are investigating ourselves right now to make sure we get to the bottom of this. It’s important that we get all the facts from ourselves, and in the meantime it would be inappropriate for ourselves to answer questions about the investigation we’re conducting on ourselves.”

Step 3: “Didn’t I just tell you we started an investigation of ourselves? Also, we noted our outrage. I cannot possibly make any statements about the very obvious wrongdoing that occurred on our watch until the investigation we’re conducting of ourselves is completed, printed on paper and in my hands. Anything else would jeopardize the integrity of our investigation of ourselves. Is that what you want?”

Step 4: Demonstrate severe indignation at the mere asking of questions after the administration has expressed grave concern and started an investigation.

Step 5: “Only crazy wingers even ask questions about stuff like this. Are you a crazy winger? Do you think it’s a grand conspiracy in which the President of the United States conspired to personally hurt (insert veterans/children/Americans here)?  Do you think that’s an appropriate question to ask?”

Step 6: Wait six months, refer to formerly outrageous scandal as phony.

Step 7: Slow walk investigation and especially the release of requested and possibly incriminating documents for a year or more.

Step 8: “Oh, that ‘scandal’? Dude, that was a year ago. Who’s still talking about that?”

[Xavier_Onassis]

Yeah, they should piss away $40 million on every stupid issue that comes up, like Starr did with Lewinsky.

[sirs]

Any $'s spent would be a fraction of the cost if there wasn't all the stonewalling & cover up.   So you can blame any significant cost to whatever walls the Dems try to put up

[Plane]

Yeah, they should piss away $40 million on every stupid issue that comes up, like Starr did with Lewinsky.

The truth was covered , why should it require so much money to break the stonewalling?


Why couldn't the people who knew the truth have just handed it over and let us all know the truth, it was in their hands to release the truth, for no money.

Nixon could have made Watergate short and cheap to investigate , Clinton could have made Whitewater and his twelve female accusers short and sweet by telling the whole truth about them.

Now Benghazi is a huge scandal HUGE but some people think it not so.

Easy way to tell it is really bad , look for the Nixon clue, lots of stonewalling.

If it was really a small deal , it would not be worthy of such effort to cover up, the administration KNOWS how big a deal it is and knows what damage would result from full public knowledge of the truth.

  I knew it was a big deal , first time I realized that the video that the incident was blamed on was a cock and bull story , the White House was in panic mode, and the stonewalling since then seems to indicate that there is a lot of iceberg left to see.

[sirs]

Thanks to the Professor's contribution, the SOP requires an amending.....

Step 9:  Apply every possible delaying tactic, using all steps 1-8, contributing to an ever growing amount of tax dollars being spent for any investigation, then decry how much money is being spent on said investigation