Thank you.
Add Bennett to the list - He now must now that the request changed from “verify that these elements are true and correct” to “verify that these elements match with some of the records on file” (but those records may not be true and correct).
Bennett knows how hard HI pushed to make this change, and he knows that if he had persisted *more* smear articles would have been coming from the likes of WaPo. (They wrote published an article the day before he accepted the revised language mocking him for even asking HI for email verification.)
Yes, at this point Bennett would have to know what was going on, if he has any sense at all.
And for him to be pressuring Arpaio to end the criminal investigation suggests that either he sides with what he knows is the “bad guys”, or he’s afraid to stand up to the “bad guys”, or he’s been threatened by the “bad guys” to try to get the good guys off their tails.