Oh, that makes me feel so much better. You could tell they weren't going to tell us much of anything - this was more a ceremony than anything else. And while I want details, they're simply not going to come this soon, and part of the reason for that is to assure the integrity of the cases against the shooters. Which is wracking to my curiosity, but worth it if it means an airtight case against these guys.
My concern wasn't what he DIDN'T say, but rather, what he DID say - between the lines. Just before he came on, Rita Cosby was talking about all the codes and messages in the press conferences, and she indicated that the time he blew up at reporters over the tarot card was greatly exaggerated, according to her LE sources, because of the message it would send to the shooters, who by all accounts had said that the tarot card info shouldn't be released to the public. So he was advised to act angrier than he really was to try to maintain a rapport with the killers. It was a message to them that they could still trust him, that he was on their side (well, you know...) and that it wasn't HIS mistake that had caused the leak.
So then I hear about his "blowup" tonight and got all worried that he might still be sending secret messages. I'm still a little twitchy about his "presser" last night, when he told us all that these guys weren't the ones and then talked to the snipers - when they knew darn well that these were the guys. I like to think that his statement last night was a CYA tactic to maintain the integrity of the case and minimize liability issues, or else a ploy designed to lull the snipers into thinking the police were still way behind in their investigation to make the end of the end game a little easier. But I have to admit I'm still a bit tweaked. Then again, even though it's likely the white van is a nonissue, I still find myself looking at them a bit nervously when I pass them on the road, and even though it was pretty much a foregone conclusion that these were the guys and they wouldn't be shooting at me, when I was coming out of the grocery store tonight I still kept an eye on the far side of the parking lot, and beyond. So I think, even if this IS the end, the freaked-outedness is going to take a while to subside, simply because being freaked out has become a habit in the last three weeks.
I hope it's that, at any rate, that's causing this niggling little fear. And I mean fear about the sniper cases, not the Threat of Terrorism in General.
So, fellow wearers-of-foil, put my mind at ease for the evening, at least: there was nothing Moose said or inflected tonight that indicated some super-secret coded message, right?