DC I agree with you on this one. It would be politically indefensible for Geary to support Michael in the hearings, so the best he could do was excuse himself from them and on the way out the door say some platitudes about Italian people and excuse himself. I am sure he figured that michael had a plan to deal with it, and he just wanted to stay clear of the whole thing. That would have been good enough for Michael, who I imagine could have used Geary later on to get at Questadt and the chairman of the committeee.