Dudes! Quit this poor-pitiful-us whining. It's not becoming of one of the greatest countries on the planet.
Ben was as dirty as your week-old socks, and his camp admitted as much in the course of the Dubin Inquiry. Don't go looking for bogeymen who aren't there. Shut up and take the medicine as it was dealt. Indeed, feel proud that so many people came clean when they didn't really have to, given the paucity of hard evidence implicating most of them. I can assure you that in just about any other country in the world if there were such a Star Chamber the witnesses would fall on whatever version of the 5th was available to them. gh