>>3462910

Honest?

Or they just couldn't plausibly deny it anymore.

I'm sure there were some honest actors at FBI, and even the criminals had to go through the motions to make it all look legit.

But they couldn't use him as a direct source anymore with undeniable evidence of his conflicts.

So they had to launder it through Bruce.

>>3463478

Best theory I've heard is simply that it was up for renewal and she wisely elected to avoid another review because the optics of a denial would be worse.

She left office in 2012 so it would be 6 years in 2018.

>>3463501

Always worse on weekends.

But yes quality declining as contributor volume increases.