[nuconvert]

“The “plot” was stopped back in May-June “

I thought it was Aug. However, his arrest was about 10 days ago. Obviously, they were still tracking this guy, whether it was June or not, and had to play along in order to get more info & evidence and find out all the players. They can’t just announce the story the 1st day the DEA agent is contacted.

[Travis McGee]

It was stopped when he was put into contact with a network of DEA/FBI informants and actors. That was way back. After that, he posed ZERO threat, and was just being used as a lure to try to see if he really knew any actual terrorists, or not.

So the big press conference was purely a show, timed to derail Issa's subpoenas. The presser could have been held last week or next year or never. If anything, the big presser killed any other investigative work on the case. Holder just used the case like a Kleenex.