This is the political equivalent of the WW1 Aviation tactic called the Lufbery Circle where planes flew in a circle, each protecting the tail of the one before it. The entire Executive Branch is diluting responsibility and confusing a willing media to believe that no one person is guilty, no one action was wrong. Every time something comes to the surface, the finger is pointed elsewhere and officialdom proclaims that an active investigation ties their hands but the investigation is slowed by lack of sequestered money and manpower so no one can make decisions. When it is January 2017, POTUS will issue pardons and new lobbyists, journalist, academics will look for the next turn of the wheel.
Someone should get hold of Jim Bunning’s spawn. He would be throwing some asses in jail like yesterday till he got a cake made.