"OK, I had some help from a duplicitous vice president, Dick Cheney. Then there was George W. Bush, a gullible president who could barely locate Iraq on a map and who wanted to avenge his father and enrich his friends in the oil business. And don’t forget the neoconservatives in the White House and the Pentagon who fed cherry-picked intelligence about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction, or WMD, to reporters like me."
Judith Miller not copping to her role in duping a nation is just the first mark of assholes who think they can get away with shit. It's the Milgram experiments writ large and it's practiced by everyone in different measure: telling people you love and/or respect them, cheating on your taxes, shorting someone on change, not returning an overage and then there are the large scale forms of such asymmetry, campus date rape, then rape squads, comfort women, slavery, brutality, exploitation, subjugation, genocide...
It simply cannot be the reciprocity of tip for tap - it has to be about obeying things more unenforceable, and it has to be about viable trust.