This whole business of self-investigation really works!
If, by work, you mean "absolve the accused of all wrongdoing".
- So, you give orders to torture prisoners? Find a scapegoat, then absolve yourself!
- Shot at a recently-freed prisoner under suspicious circumstances? No wrongdoing here!
- Pocket an additional $200 million on a "reconstruction" project? You're a baaad boy! Have another contract!
- Subordinates fucking children? Nothing to see here, just move along, we'll deal with it ourselves. Someday in the distant future.
- Captured the wrong person in the so-called GWOT? We'll just hold him until we can find a way to hide the evidence.
- Election irregularities? We investigated ourselves, but, shoot, «There’s no such thing as an error-free election.»