Reply #33: When someone commits a crime, you don't alert the criminal. [View All]

[Mugsy]

That's just stupid.

When someone commits a crime, you don't go to the criminal and tell them that's you're going to turn them in. You go to the police... which in this analogy would be Congress... and tell THEM to investigate the crime.

When Arthur Anderson, the accounting firm for Enron, was told there would be an investigation, they drove in an industrial shredder and started destroying all the evidence (often not even bothing to remove the files from the metal filing cabinets, opting instead just to shred the files, steel filing cabinet and all.