Zinoviev Letter said:
Blackcat's perspective seems to be that Garmin is a con because any successful team in professional sport must, by definition, be doping and therefore taking a prominent anti-doping stance in such a position, again by definition, makes you a liar and a charlatan.
I don't agree with this point of view, but it at least has the merit of some internal consistency. On what basis exactly are you making the same assumptions about Garmin?
I am not sure what you are asking me.
I used to think that Vaughters and Garmin were as good as their word, but now I don't.
Why don't I believe Vaughters anymore? Because his public actions do not tally with his public pronouncements. I think his 'oh but I can't tell you' is patronising and insulting. The upshot of that is that as far as I can tell the guff about 'clean racing' is just a marketing ploy designed to trap the gullible who see him as a breath of fresh air compared with Riis, Hog and McQuaid.
There is obviously the Lim and Matt White issues as well
I don't believe he genuinely has any interest in clean racing, either in his team or in general. He nor his riders have any desire to break omerta - as Millar so clearly exemplifies. I am sick to death of Millar telling us 'we have to believe in X'. I'm sick of Millar sticking the boot into the likes of Landis from behind the fig leaf of being anti-doping while defending the likes of Dertie, Vino, Armstrong (till recently), Piepoli etc
Millar needs to STFU, and Vaughters needs to man up.