“I regularly used to tell people that the fastest way to move up in the government is to just screw up, and the bigger the screwup, the bigger the promotion. Every person implicated in your mistakes has an interest in covering up what they did, so they will promote you. That means the people at the very top are usually the most immoral, unethical people in the entire agency.” GovernmentGovernment CorruptionGovernment AbuseGovernment Cover Ups Book:Government Gangsters: The Deep State, the Truth, and the Battle for Our Democracy Source: Government Gangsters: The Deep State, the Truth, and the Battle for Our Democracy