The elites play hugball among themselves and fob other people off with anything the elites think they'll believe.
When it was time to prosecute Slick, Dubya sent Rove out to hand us some bullshine about not wanting to let Slick upstage The President's agenda with a bunch of courtroom histrionics and sucking all the air out of the room, mediawise. (Oh, yeah --- can't let that precious "in" with Media go!)
That’s pretty much what I expect too.