Unwilling to be made a scapegoat in the affair, which resulted in the death of Border Patrol agent Brian Terry using one of the trafficked guns, Melson, acting ATF director since April 2009, testified behind closed doors on Monday before two congressional oversight committees. He appeared with his own private attorney, rather than lawyers from the Department of Justice. His explosive testimony needs to be heard loudly and publicly.I just had a flashback to Crystal Mangum's Duke Lacrosse Team "rape" hoax. Duke U.'s immediate reaction was to tell the members of the team to rely on Duke to handle the case rather than their own parents and their own lawyers. The parents found out, and they were absolutely correct in going ballistic over it - as later events quickly showed, the university was eager to sell them down the river. In that situation, counting on them was absolutely the worst thing they could have done.
Good posts (46 and 47)