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How to Deflect the Blame on a Political Scandal

"Serious mistakes were made." Where would politics be without that formula? You know how the rest goes:

"Mistakes were made. People must be held accountable. And that is why I am firing a junior official nobody has ever heard of before."

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David Frum

David Frum is a contributing editor at Newsweek and The Daily Beast and a CNN contributor. He is the author of eight books, including most recently the e-book WHY ROMNEY LOST and his first novel Patriots, published in April 2012.

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