http://www.canada.com/national/story.asp?id=A089ED96-5C32-479F-A611-4A10875B4B62OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Paul Martin, fending off charges that he must have known about the sponsorship scandal while it was happening, blamed a "sophisticated" group of bureaucrats who acted secretly.
"When they broke those rules, they didn't come to cabinet and say, 'Oh, can we break these rules?"' Martin told the House of Commons. "What they did . . . was engage in a very sophisticated way of camouflaging what they were doing. And as a result the government did not know."
Martin was under attack for a second day following the release of a damning report by the auditor general. The report found that Liberal-connected middlemen pocketed 40 per cent commissions - or $100 million - from a $250-million sponsorship program that was intended to promote Canada at Quebec public events.
Perhaps the 'sophisticated group' are hiding out with the WMD's, Osama bin Laden and Lord Lucan?
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