Mr Blix found Iraq guilty of sins of both omission and commission.But in other ways, the report dashed American hopes.
By their reckoning, Giuliani is guilty of sins of both commission and omission, beginning with his failure to heed the warnings of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, a failure that, they argue, left the city unprepared for the attacks.
Last year he took aim at CNBC for being Wall Street cheerleaders, telling Jim Cramer, the host of its "Mad Money" program, that "the financial news industry is not just guilty of a sin of omission but a sin of commission".
But director Malik Bendjelloul is guilty of the sin of omission.
Conservatives who are Christians sometimes express this point by saying that human beings are guilty of original sin.
The British realist John Galsworthy insisted that "The dramatist who hangs his characters to his plot, instead of hanging his plot to his characters, is guilty of cardinal sin".
The question now is whether the pope's statement was made in ignorance or if the Vatican was guilty of the sin of deliberate omission.
And when you think about it -- or when D'Souza thinks about it, anyway -- the rich are actually more virtuous than the poor, since poor people are guilty of the sin of envy, and often steal besides.
"She was already a head case before she even met Moore (if she did)." Alabama voters can choose to presume Moore's innocence, in spite of the mounting claims against him; Jones, meanwhile, is indisputably guilty of the sin of supporting abortion rights.
