gay lovers.
I disagree with this.
He has been surveilling them and catching them in crimes for all this time.
But it's not for the reason you say.
They needed time to line up everything, including the 50K sealed indictments.
And to prepare the public for the revelations about the Media.
The pardons might have been part of it. But if they really had the goods which we are told they have, they wouldn't have need to wait for that legalistic reason. Because everything would've been understood with the release of the data.