I'm tired of the "everybody does it!" defense. Hang 'em all.
Yep. Beyond that when somebody in the leadership becomes a liability, you simply dump them. It isn't about them. They are mere instruments wielded to affect and effect public policy in positive directions. When the intrument becomes blunt and ineffectual, and seems to point at you rather than away from you, well, God invented dumpsters for a reason.
Yep, just because it isn't illegal doesn't mean its ethical. Its all a big game to them. All of them.
see link to follow-up story at #50