In my view, the lying, demonization, and dismissal of importance were pretty typical for a government scandal. They all play out that way, as the guilty partie

In my view, the lying, demonization, and dismissal of importance were pretty typical for a government scandal. They all play out that way, as the guilty parties try for damage control. The initial occurrence was spectacularly incompetent in a way that seems to me to be worse than normal.