Da Haig Convention may indeed have shielded da likes of "Ol' Tricky" and "Free Willy" from answering for their horrible breaches of public trust, but it also caused a noticeable surge of additional and widespread
government corruption, since da perpetrators of said subsequent illegal/unethical shenanigans saw how easily their commanders-in-
chief had been let off da hook regarding their misdeeds, and so they figgered dat they themselves could probably get away with getting their own hands
dirty.