[alan]

Tom Servo wrote:

it makes more sense to gather ALL of the facts and "smoking guns" (pun intended), and release it all much closer to the elections.

Another thing to consider: if this extends all the way to the Attorney General (and possibly higher), we'll be making some pretty serious accusations. We've got to be absolutely sure that we've got some pretty serious proof to back it up.

We'll likely see some mid-level management thrown to the wolves if this gets more traction, but getting further up the ladder will require some pretty dire evidence.

And right now, the DoJ controls the flow of evidence.
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Re the opening observation, absolutely true.

Likely, it extends way past the AG, for instance right up to the person that appointed him.

On throwing "mid-management" people to the wolves, that's likely what will happen, a few sacrificial lambs will be searched for, and found. They will then be "sacrificed", for those ultimately responsible must/will be protected.

As to the last, DOJ controls the flow of evidence, that's right, but The Congress, if it has the guts, controls the flow of money. As another poster asked, absent appropriations, will DOJ/BATFE "go into business for themselves"? Who knows. Does The Congress have the guts to really get to the bottom of this? Again, who knows. By the way, nothing above offered is intended to clean the skirts or trousers of The Congress, which bears significant responsibility for the current mess, for instance, when did they last repeal any of the idiocy they enacted in the name or cause of Gun Control? Prohibition was enacted too, despite the fact of it's being constitutionally questionable, questionable on the basis of common sense too.

As for media seemingly "soft peddling" the executive branch screw-up, does that really surprise anyone, given that media, in general, is virulently anti gun, anti gun rights?