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Message: [QUOTE="moqui, post: 89126, member: 214"] you need to climb off the ledge. it is entirely conceivable that once the 2005 report essentially cleared Bernie, the higher ups told JB "all clear, do you want to see the full report?" and he just answered no. If there was any kind of doubt, they might have said "JB, read the report then you make the call if you want to keep Bernie around." Final option - if the report was damning, then Cantor and Gross would have taken the decision completely out of JB's hands. Of the three possibilities, it was most likely the first. Therefore, JB doesn't actually have to have read the report to know that it clears Bernie. that being said, it wouldn't surprise me at all to find out JB is being deceptive here and actually [B]has[/B] read the report. it would be foolish at this point not to have done so. despite his rep as a "straight shooter," JB has a history of deceiving, obfuscating, and straight out lying to reporters when it suits him. [/QUOTE]