Ed Krayewski on the Anatomy of an Obama Scandal

The Obama administration is riddled with scandals, from guns going missing in Mexico under Operation Fast & Furious to the revelations about the cover up of long wait times at Veterans Administration hospitals. In fact, these scandals have become such a regular occurence that we can now glean a pattern in how the administration gets itself into them, and then how it tries to wiggle itself out. As Ed Krayewski explains, the pattern generally follows six steps.
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