Any hearing should be held in public - McCabe scandal
It does not capture the full price we pay for tolerating a society-wide culture that is at best secretive, is routinely evasive, but, at its worst, turns a blind eye to the dishonesty that perpetuates dysfunction and failure in public life.
Sgt Maurice McCabe spoke to that sleazy culture yesterday when he called for a public inquiry rather than the behind-closed-doors one proposed. He said he and his family had been “systemically attacked by a number of state agencies” and that his family had been “the subject of a long and sustained campaign to destroy its character”.
