I was watching FoxNews earlier this morning and happened to watch the usual weekend exchange between Ellen Ranting Ratner and Jim Pinkerton. [I try to avoid those two whenever possible, but accidents happen and I turned on the TV too early this morning. But I digress.......]
'Rantner', surprisingly, was right on. She was saying the 'problem' was a failure of agency communications.
DING DING DING We have a winner.
Disappointingly, Pinkerton failed to take advantage of that admission and rambled an incoherent excuse of a lack of policy as early as 2000.
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Pinkerton should have taken Rantner's admission of the failure of agency communications and used Rantner's own words against her to drive the point down the court and make an easy and obvious score. It would have been a slam-dunk to bring up the Gorelick Wall.
Pinkerton wasn't up to the task. Rantner gave him the gun and even gave him the bullet. Pinkerton dropped it on his foot.
It's not stupidity... it's deliberate indifference.