"Ian Johnston" wrote in message
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On Fri, 8 Sep 2006 18:10:27 UTC, wrote:

I'm only a fascinated outsider (everyone slows for a good car crash)
but I wonder how much I would trust a committee which had missed the
disapperance half a million dollars to know the best thing to do.

I am as apalled as anyone, but I have been in the position of the members
of the "committe" and the best they can do in their periodic meetings is ask
probing questions and evaluate whatever information they are given. They are
not auditors, so If they are not given good answers to their questions, or
otherwise fed bum information, there is little they can do to detect what others
conceal from them.

In other words, "Garbage in" leads to "garbage out".

We as members are in an even more remote position. Until there is an honest
investigation, conducted by qualified, uninvolved outsiders, we have no way of
knowing who knew what, who said what, who did what, and who (if anybody) stole
what.

Vaughn