thought, other examples come to mind...the Chernobyl Disaster would never have happened if the Soviet Union's culture wasn't such that no one was allowed to utter a word that would imply a mistake by any party official...a design flaw was found in another reactor but no report was allowed to be published...the Chernobyl team wouldn't have done their test had they known about it.
In a non-secular situation, we saw our own Catholic Hierarchy care more for the "Brand" when it came to pedophilia, than the wellbeing of its membership.
In all three cases a singular and insulated leadership, without an effective and institutional means of oversight, failed miserably with severe impacts on many innocent people. Let's make sure that our nation behaves properly and always strives to do "the right thing"...more dialogue on that theme is needed.