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Reading about Comey’s tell-all book: Why don’t Philippine govt officials write tell-all books? Are they all in it together so nobody talks, kind of like the mafia?

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Likely, this tell-all book would have not told all, but regarding your question: I wouldn't say they're all in it together, but I'd wager they likely share the same methods. Exposing and unraveling that might paint a target on their back. The only thing that stops everyone else from removing you through unity or through focusing their resources on you is the lack of a unifying agent. By even threatening to expose such secrets, you become everyone's enemy. —– Also, what, you expect people who have dark secrets to admit to all of them (and go to jail)? Even if they decide to publish to book on their deathbed, I don't think anyone wants to be vilified in a version of history they wrote - unless you're doing it to spite certain people, or you have a sudden change of heart. —– Finally, it's pretty common for people who work in the higher echelons of non-elected gov't service to be swapped out with each administration, so I don't think there'd be much to tell outside of one admin.
The last time somebody did, he got killed.