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Er skýringuna um innihald laga um "rannsókn á aðdraganda og orsökum falls íslensku bankanna 2008 og tengdra atburða" að finna í eftirfarandi ummælum Peter Oborne á Amason en þar segir:

“They live in a sealed world - like astronauts on an alien planet, moving along airlocked passages between a series of domes: party machines: “think-tanks”; Parliament; government; EU bureaucracy; lobbying; consultancies; media, all within the giant dome of politics. They form a self-admiring, self-promoting coterie and although they can plot viciously against each other they protect each other equally fiercely from any attack or criticism from the outside world. In their hands the political parties have melted their political differences and simply become vehicles for personal ambitions. Ironically, the political parties have never been so well organized and managed at precisely the moment when they no longer represent the interests and values of wider society and when they are all being deserted en masse by their former members."