OldnGrounded:
Yes among the scheming arts practiced by attys is the delay of disclosure. But here, DOJ would hold back disclosed docs from FAA, as FAA is trying to understand what happened, what it will take to return to certificated airworthiness, and whether those actions have been completed? I can't buy into that.
And these newly disclosed docs, it's sufficient to note the existence of a criminal inquiry, to justify the participants in the recently completed JATR not to have this info as part of their review?
And where FAA is striving to regain global confidence of many other high-level CAAs?
(Yeah, Counsel is a strong presence - a legend, truly - and the "ecstatic" term is apt, though in the particular setting, more restraint was indicated, and was shown. But you're absolutely right, it's like, Perry Mason moments do happen.)