[Oceander]

That letter was a 16 inch shell over the DOJ’s bow. Issa and Grassley are playing a very complicated game of chess with the Obama (mal)administration, not a game of checkers, and that requires, to paraphrase Teddy Roosevelt, that you talk softly and carry a big stick.

Also, the fact of the matter is that Issa and Grassley don’t want DOJ or the other conspirators in the Obama (mal)administration to figure out their gameplan, so they use innuendo and “gentle reminders” and take the public approach of being conciliatory in order to keep DOJ and the rest off guard, drive up their anxiety and panic - which will almost inevitably draw more rats away from the ship - and will turn up the infighting by playing on their paranoia and their fear, and fear feeds on uncertainty, not certainty. If Issa and Grassley played their hands too straight right now, they would give the game away and DOJ would know precisely what they have to attack and how they have to attack it.

No, this was a very skillfully written letter that is almost certainly driving the political operatives in the DOJ nuts with fear.

[El Cid]

Thanks.
I hope your assessment is correct.
If Issa and Grassley need to play things close to the vest (for the good reasons you mention) -- I'd still want to see others loudly call that the Holder gang (ATF and/or DOJ) were actively complicit in murder.

[RummyChick]

I am not buying Melson’s story. He knew.

So did Obama, DOJ, FBI, CIA and likely State Department...and the NSA didn’t know???

[Enchante]

"That letter was a 16 inch shell over the DOJ’s bow. Issa and Grassley are playing a very complicated game of chess with the Obama (mal)administration, not a game of checkers, and that requires, to paraphrase Teddy Roosevelt, that you talk softly and carry a big stick."

LOL, a few more metaphors needed, please!

Just teasing, thanks for your explanations on these threads, what an amazing (and awful) case which ought to be at least Holder-gate before we are through.....