We have a long history of indicting people for "lying under oath" and never indicting them for the actual issue they were interrogated about, which often is not an indictable offense, but rather something personally embarrassing.

> I invented a saying to describe this common occurrence: "Sometimes the cover-up is worse than the crime."

This concept and phrasing was common at least as early as the Watergate Scandal in 1974.

Yes, the phrase really taking off!

It could have been a military contract with a gag order: Sam wasn’t forthright because he couldn’t.

Agreeing to that would be a very good reason for a board to sack him.

And he probably wouldn’t approve unless there was a specific use case that he thought mandated an exception. Recent international news provide some inspiration.

Do gag orders usually stop you from talking to your board about it, or people you work with?

Gag orders are absolute, you're not allowed to tell anyone about what you're gagged on except for the specific people the government agrees to.

I couldn’t tell you.

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