First to sequel gets the deal...He's the guy that showed up with his own personal attorney, on the 4th of July, instead of his government appointed attorney handlers.
This made the White House and all the other alphabet agencies recoil.
Er.. first to *squeal gets the deal
1) The facts are going to come out one way or another
2) A lot of very serious laws have been broken by their misconduct
3) As a result of their misconduct a lot of people were murdered including American and Mexican law enforcement agents, Mexican politicians, Mexican prosecuting Attorneys and a lot of innocent civilians
4) Their misuse of Executive Privilege to to cover up is digging them a deeper and deeper hole for obnstrtion of justice.
5) Their co workers are stupid enough to document their misconduct in official correspondence so there is an evidence trail.
6) To avoid criminal prosecution and career destruction they better follow Melson’s lead and get a lawyer of their own and cut a deal to turn states evidence in return for immunity
Issa is going to start squeezing the mid and high level people to get the guys at the top - and this goes straight to the top. No way could low level people approve this kind of operation on their own.
This has a distinct Janet Napolitano / Eric Holder never let a good crisis go to waste feel to it.
As an interesting aside, anyone notice how the much of the violence in Mexico has trailed off since the new Republicans were sworn into office and the Issa investigations on Fast and Furious started getting traction. it's still bad but not like it was earlier and a lot of the , especially the headline grabbing types of brazen bloody atrocities we were seeing while this administration was on it's big “US guns are driving the violence in Mexico” PR offensive.
Very unusual