"Why the Vati-Leaks Trial Did Nothing for Vatican Transparency"

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/10/why-the-vati-leaks-trial-did-nothing-for-vatican-transparency/263580/

"When Paolo Gabriele wanted to talk about interesting things, they didn't let him," wrote Aldo Maria Valli, a respected Vatican journalist with Rai, the Italian state TV network. "These facts would have extremely interesting, because they show that Gabriele did not act as a solitary, slightly mad figure but as a conscious person living in an environment where this unease was shared by Vatican officials of the highest rank. .. "We have witnessed the extraordinary spectacle of a trial that has tried to hide rather than clarify," Valli wrote. "One must say with total candor that it was a political trial carried out for reasons of state."