A Brotherhood Of Secret-Keepers.
An awareness, over the years, spreads through Congress: "Many of us are guilty and we need to protect each other."
Because it isn't just the sexual secrets anymore. It's the subsequent immoral actions taken and not taken, based on being compromised. Based on being controlled.
"Appreciate your committee vote to kill the bill yesterday, Senator. I assure you that thing in Miami last summer""
"When does our deal end? When are we even? This is worse than prison."
"It's not worse. And it never ends. But don't worry, be happy. Keep playing the game. It's no skin off your nose."
"What about honor?"
"Please. You gave that away a long time ago. In Miami. But we also know about the hotel rooms in New York, Washington, Chicago, LA..."
The Congressman can't believe the bind he's in. He's having the above conversation with a man from the CIA. He and the CIA are supposed to be on the same team. And they are, if he'll understand who is higher in the pecking order, who gives the commands.
One day, he'll wake up and realize that, among the four women he abused, three were innocent, but one was sent in by the Agency with the task of seducing him. If necessary, at a later date, she could use their night together as blackmail. (For a rough variation on this theme, see numerous accounts of NY Governor Eliot Spitzer's 2008 hooker scandal, which caused his resignation from office. Spitzer was attacking Wall Street and Big Pharma.)
Then we come to the issue of reporters, who themselves could be compromised, because they're secretly guilty of sexual abuse.
For example, long-time political reporter, Glenn Thrush (Politico, NY Times, MSNBC), has just been accused of kissing and groping four women. The Times has suspended him from his position covering the White House.
If Thrush, at any time, has been aware of politicians' misdeeds, did he cover them and expose them fully -- or was he "under the gun" to play ball because of his own secrets?
One could reasonably ask this question about Thrush's relations with the 2016 Hillary Clinton campaign.
Case in point. WikiLeaks (October 2016) released an email from Thrush to John Podesta, Hillary's campaign manager. Thrush was writing an article that referred to Podesta. He emailed Podesta part of the draft, asking him to "fact-check" it. Astonishingly, Thrush remarked in the email:
"No worries Because I have become a hack I will send u the whole section that pertains to u. Please don't share or tell anyone I did this. Tell me if I fucked up anything."
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