The staffers had to know what to hide. Only the commissioners could've told them that if they, the commissioners, wanted plausible deniability. In other words, saying to the staffers, here's what I don't want to know.
Naturally I had to check my pings one more time before leaving the house :-)
And Old Friend, GREAT catch. Make sure a lot of people read that.
Yes! I was just posting the same thing, before I finished reading the thread! Deniability is all the rage with mindless bureaucrats like Gorelick, et al. Don't know what the excuse is with some of the R. members, though!