"...according to the AP's Laura Meckler. Such statements do not help the FBI with its credibility problem. But then, Laura Meckler has a huge credibility problem of her own."
Laura Meckler's problem is merely part & parcel of the bigger cancer, here.
The Associated Press & their contributing network of Liberal-Socialist sycophant shills & smear artists have been a blight on this nation & a disgrace to the spirit of The United States of America's Second Amendment since at least 1992.
Question is, then?
When are people going to make it SOP to check the source of these "stories" FIRST before Word #1's ever believed?
A sane person would never swallow a known poison; so, why are we so careless & reckless about what we're feeding our brains?
The Associated Press & a few other of America's, "News Services" have worked extremely hard at earning the contempt of every American citizen from coast-to-coast.
Since we never seem to wake-up to their continual bombardment of complete GARBAGE, they're surely laughing their a$$es clean off.
...the AP monster won't stop this crap; until, they're "killed" by the free market.
It's a very slow-acting, sweet-tasting poison, and most people are too lazy to read the label.