Back at Baker Street, he needs time to think hard about the mystery and says to Watson, "It is quite a three pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes." Holmes – The Red Headed League.
Indeed the "doc" has a three pipe problem, and probably not enough thumbs to plug all the holes in the dyke. What began as a just routine game of 'bluffing the Senators' is slowly turning into a nightmare. There is simply too much evidence available within the industry which, compiled presents an ugly story that will not just go away, ever.
Pipe 1 – By agreeing to be the cats paw the "Doc" is now firmly tied to the sinking ship. Attempting to threaten and denigrate honest critics, while grovelling and slobbering before the Senate, previously treated with open, hostile contempt; is quite a party trick. One of our learned colleagues here recently asserted the Senate can't touch them. Wrong. "He who cannot be shamed" must learn to write his own letters of apology and explanation, not hide behind the "Doc's" skirts. The 'Mc email' was bully's low shot followed by a cowards response, now recanted by the ever faithful if misguided willing accomplice. Hong Kong: anyone?
Pipe 2 – Preventing the truth from leaking out. Mission impossible. Certainly not simply because the morale of some of the more sensitive souls at CASA may be damaged. Those sensitive souls should have considered the results of their actions before merrily denigrating and destroying the morale and lives of those affected by their actions.
Pipe 3 – The Credibility gap is a yawning chasm which cannot be repaired: no court, tribunal or inquiry can ever safely again rely on the "CASA" version of "facts and circumstances". PA has, for many, proven the lies, deceit, manipulation, arrogance and corruption pudding beyond all reasonable doubt.
For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: Hosea 8.7.
Doc's response.