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My home state of Queensland, Australia, was ruled for a couple of decades by an increasingly corrupt, hard line, right wing regime, which favoured gerrymanders, secrecy, intimidation, and lies over democracy, due process, equity, and accountability.
Then, one day in the late 1980's, a corruption scandal started to get a little traction. No one paid too much attention at first - we'd seen scandals before and they'd all been covered over, hushed up, paid off.... or disappeared.
So, a compalcent governement appointed an investigator to hold an inquiry. However, this time, the investigator actually did his job. He got the terms of the inquiry expanded. He heard evidence from everyone and he pursued the investigation with conviction and independence. And, finally, he brought down the whole house of cards. The government fell and that party has been a thin, spent force ever since.
The investigator's name was Fitzgerald.
Here's hoping...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitzgerald_Inquiry
The obvious question has always been, "Who forged the Niger document?" Fitzgerald needs to go there. An outright forgery is more than "cooked" intelligence. Most Americans still believe that the Iraq invasion was a response to 9-11. If there is proof that the case for invasion was being fabricated from the beginning of Bush's first term in office, then that is further evidence that they have used terrorism as a smoke screen for the neocon private agenda instead of making the homeland safer from "those who would do us harm."
