I also think LVMPD and FBI have not articulated their case for withholding information.
Are there witnesses that may be compromised? Persons of interest that need deposing?
Come on, tell us. Release the video footage, the browser history, the searches he did, the intersections he drove through, credit card charges.
Then there’s the prostitutes he hired. Let’s hear from them.
We need to know who this monster was.
If they don’t tell us:
1. Leaks will happen.
2. Tabloids will define the case.
3. Law enforcement will lose public trust.
Unless LEO makes a plausible case for secrecy.
This is particularly true if Paddock really was a lone wolf.
Since he is dead, there will be no trial.
The only reason to keep known information away from the public would be if there were other parties involved. Those other parties include members of federal agencies.
..........was driving down the road the other day and the thought went through my mind...........”NAME one time on one major criminal investigation that our Federal Government was involved in that WE THE PEOPLE got the pure unvarnished truth?”
Starting in my lifetime with JFK, I don’t think it has ever happened.
Lying and coverup are the “norm” of the Federal Government not the exception.
“1. Leaks will happen.
2. Tabloids will define the case.
3. Law enforcement will lose public trust.”
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Already happened.....
And, once again, the feds are clearly lying to the public. Does anyone else remember the OKC bombing story, the Waco, TX massacre, the JFK story, the absurdities of 9-11....?
the plausible case for secrecy is the following.....Paddock was an arm’s length informant/operative tasked with dealing with the worst of the worst....drugs, guns, money, prostitutes. The FBI or whoever he was working for was playing the long game with these bad guys in an effort to get to the source...
Now I will add a little spice. Islamic holdovers in the intelligence agencies outed this guy and,as they say, the rest was history.