Official exculpatory reports themselves enact the systemic bias they deny.

Evidence

In a military investigation to determine the scope and sources of abusive practices, the army’s inspector general reported that their investigation revealed no “systemic” problems. “These abuses should be viewed as what they are—unauthorized actions taken by a few individuals” (White & Higham, 2004). Ironically, the exonerative report only further exemplified the systemic problem. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 611

Categorization

• XREF: The investigation report as further evidence of the problem echoes the vault theme of institutions narratively laundering their own responsibility. — connects to: The government’s own environmental reviews of its programs are structurally biased — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 307
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 611