641A ain't the only room where this happened. It's the only one where we have a public whistleblower to testify.

Transparency in government and a free press are essential to a democracy. The Clintons were no angels either. They both had heavy use of a Sharpie on FIA requested documents. The Bushes just happen to do a better job of covering their tracks; as is typically the case for the GOP operatives who tend to block and tackle far better than the Dems ever could hope to. This doesn't make them better people, just better politicians. Well shit, not everyone likes the Yankees either (I don't and never did, for the record). Doesn't mean that their two dozen (or more, I don't know) World Series championships make them great people. Just great baseball players.

Lesson learned for AT&T. Next time you want an employee to do something legally questionable then pick an employee that isnt young and idealistic or a retiring old coot that still has opinions. Pick somebody whose middle aged and has been working for a long time yet hasn't established a tenure.