Something else with Geary that bugs me -- aside from his pro-Italian monologue later in the film, he was really useless to the Corleones. Unless Questadt had a super secret witness list that wasn't shared with the rest of the Senat committee, you would have thought Geary would have tipped Michael off that Pentangeli flipped.
I've always believed that Geary helped spring the perjury trap on Michael:
As a member of that Senate subcommittee, and because Michael was one of his "constituents," Geary
had to know that they were holding Pentangeli in secret. I believe that his questioning of Cicci about "buffers" was directly aimed at getting Cicci to admit that "I never talked to him [Michael]," making Michael think that since Cicci was the highest ranking witness against him, he could get away with perjury. That BS speech about Italians being "the salt of the earth," and his hasty departure from the hearing, were designed to cover his ass.
