Once they got away with Waco without a single scalp nothing should surprise us.
( that garbage at the end was a string of characters from the IMG SRC URL, a photo of the hanging of the Lincoln assassin conspirators ).
I would also add the line from Matt Bracken:
"We could both be facing prison time just for talking like this."
"Not as long as we're in power. You know how I know? Operation Fast and Furious. At least four hundred dead and there was no blowback that we couldn't handle. Our media stuck right with us all the way through. For me, that was the final test. We can do almost anything if we get the timing right, and most of the media stays with us."