Supreme Incompetence – The American Conservative
A statement from the Court on throwing in the towel simply admits that the team has to date been unable to identify a person responsible by a preponderance of the evidence. They interviewed 97 people, looked through some outdated computer systems, reviewed personnel training policies, then called it a day.
With the resources of the federal government at their disposal and a good bit of the work already done for them, the marshal and her team could not connect the fairly few dots between disgruntled SCOTUS staff and the leaking team at Politico. They actually seem to know less, after months of ostensibly professional investigation, than amateur Twitter sleuths were able to uncover in the first few days after the leak.
To give the surrender a sense of legitimacy, the Court hired Michael Chertoff, former secretary of Homeland Security, to review its investigation. Unsurprisingly, Chertoff concluded that he could not identify any additional useful investigative measures that might help the Court determine one simple fact after an eight-month investigation.
via www.theamericanconservative.com
It sounds like a cover up, but leak investigations are notoriously difficult and often result in no culprit being found. This particular leak was well planned. They’ll probably never know for sure who was behind it. Plausible deniability rules.