As government employees, I am sure they have been told not to comment publicly on what happened. Why? Because it is under investigation. At least that will be the reason given. Also, it appears from public documents released on Friday that most of those assigned there were with the intelligence agencies.
Only problem with that: Considering the magnitude of this CF, the blatant lying and now the crass attempt to let these same people and their agencies get the blame for all of the above....
...I'm sure that The Word is already out (if only within The Community involved), the people who've heard about it are both very seriously pi$$ed on a personal level PLUS have to consider this as a threat to their profession and career. If not a real fine opportunity to wind up in a Federal Institution for a very long time...
Only result I can see from that is that the lid's going to come off of this can of worms, and it's not going to be a very long time before it does. (I'll take 1200 Hours 10/22/2012 if somebody wants to start a pool.)
Maybe Axelrod's pale demeanor and general malaise the past couple of weeks is there for good reason. Couldn't happen to a more deserving individual.