A thought just came to me.
Wouldn't it be reasonable to expect that DECLAS is going to have a negative effect on the Stock markets? I imagine it will.
So maybe there's more to the timing of Pappy Bush's death/State Funeral timing than meets the eye.
If controlled by good guys or not, the 5th is now an HW love-fest and anything that happens in Congress is getting ZERO airtime (that's assuming the Dems don't try to shut down Congress that day anyway and Huber get's postponed).
The MSM is going to try to ignore DECLAS anyway. But the markets won't.
So the markets will all close on Weds for the official State Day of mourning for Pappy Bush.
DECLAS after the bell on Tues gives the market ~36 hours to digest the impact to financial assets DECLAS causes (I can't imagine some of it's already priced in though) and there's no way DECLAS is happening on the day of mourning.
Plus the added bonus of the MSM being so pre-prepared to cover only the love-fest, that the shrieks of "National Security/International relationships" would be minimized by ~24 hours.
This timing also would be post-LL/Comey testimony.
Anyway, just a thought.
sauce: https://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/419264-nyse-closing-wednesday-to-honor-george-hw-bush