"come clean about their role in this insidious act."
Note that the article fails to mention that the real "insidious act" was the bald-faced lie that Wilson came back from Nigeria with, which McAwful and Lockhart no doubt played a part in.
The hypocrisy of the Rats is becoming so predictable, yet so over the top that it is no longer funny. Now it has become sickening.
He went to Niger, not Nigeria. Otherwise I agree completely with your observation. The scandal is the reverse of conventional wisdom.