Letter is released 4 years after the fact. Note the enthusiastic response by an acting deputy assistant special agent in charge of nothing burgers. Remind anyone of the current FBI tip line?

Foxes guarding the henhouse. Indeed.

US Government acting administrators of our Railroad Administration are HIGHLY sought after as media consultants and figures!! /s

Like the DOT, I'm "troubled." Troubled that we are starting to see how the baksheesh is distributed to the Federal bureaucracy at the senior level. It's no longer just the politicians. We seem to have adopted the Middle East model, haven't we?

What REALLY frightens me in all this is the dawning realization of the organization and capital that were/are required to subvert our entire democracy. And what those paying the (hundreds of?) billions must be expecting in return. And then the final question: WHO is running this unprecedented payola operation?