Some staffers are partisan Donks and probably told Able Danger to take a hike since it made Bill Clinton and Jamie Gorelik look culpable. Committee staffers are young and ambitious. They blew it and are covering up.
"Committee staffers are young and ambitious. They blew it and are covering up."
Not a chance, check this thread out, this commission paid for the professional wall builders.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1462578/posts
Staff members, especially those culled for work on specially-appointed or temporary commissions are generally professional government trough-slurpers, i.e. attorneys, hardened former or on-leave bureaucrats, sabattical academics, "consultants" (translated: out-of-work educated losers) and the like.
These staffs can attain great power because they can influence the too-lazy or too-busy commission members, or hide pertinent material from them if they want to.
Leni