"The crime is the cover-up" is one of the pieces of conventional wisdom that resulted in Right Now, where the media are incapable of covering openly committed crimes. Also, Watergate was a series of crimes AND THEN a criminal cover-up.
Peterwhen you look at,e.g., flat earth, there’s really no prescriptive element. there’s no policy platform that flows from it. the point is the cover-up itself.