Remember how that other Mafia used to go to lengths to announce that there was no such thing as the Mafia?
I remember that once the Mafia infiltrated local/state/regional and Federal offices, the government started announcing that there was no such thing as the Mafia.
Remember when Communists took over the entertainment industry (Hollywood) and many government offices, and even though McCarthy proved it, the communists kept insisting there was no such thing as communists?