Another Freeper suggested that he is merely a figurehead, that the FBI is calling the shots, telling him what to say ... and not to say. I think that Freeper is correct.
If not the FBI then the VA/MD state police.
Don't let him bug ya.
I try, but his lack of ability to use the English language drives me to yell at my TV.
Someone on FNC said that this was indeed the case. The FBI bungled the anthrax case so badly that they did not want to be out front and center. So they send the Moose to do that for them while they run the investigation behind the scene.