There’s been a pretty strong belief Coates is on Christian Adams’ side on this and the Obama administration can’t stop him from testifying though he could lose his job over it.
I think, apart from the moral questions, that he’s between a rock and a hard place. If he stonewalls and the Republicans take over, he could be implicatred in Holder’s corruption. If he disobeys Holder, he could be fired.
And I hope he has some sort of protection, or he may end up as another Obamacide. Like that guy who worked for Obama in the State Department, and was shot in DC just before he was about to testify.
Or...he could get dead.
Maybe, maybe not. Perhaps Coates had some vacation time coming up, and decided not to tell his supervisors where he planned to take it.
“There’s been a pretty strong belief Coates is on Christian Adams’ side on this and the Obama administration can’t stop him from testifying though he could lose his job over it.”
I think he is probably being harassed on the job for siding with Adams and so has nothing to lose by testifying.
If this were the Clinton Administration, he could be stopped. I am not so sure that Chicago is terribly different from Arkansas.