Bradley Moss - Great summary of the DOJ filing last night!

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61. Glad someone described this

because I have had to battle the "why did it take DOJ so long (fill in the blank number of months - 18, 19, 20) to "act".

As I have written - regular civilian/regulatory agencies don't have the power to "prosecute" so they use DOJ to do that. However BEFORE they do that, they have their own "internal" procedures, that progressively escalate, to have someone or some firm "comply" with a request.

They will usually send a written request on agency letterhead asking for "A, B, C" and will add that the reply be returned by "x" date. If they don't hear back, they will repeat the request, referencing the previous written request and the date that was sent... And there is usually wiggle room given to extend the date, because sometimes the people who have the knowledge about the requested info, may be out of the country or otherwise not available due to some unusual circumstances but they will try to get hold of them and/or find someone who can act on their behalf... So there is some negotiation. And it escalates from there until they get to the point where they may go to DOJ to subpoena the info.

And even then, if not everything that was received was responsive, it eventually escalates into something like we saw here - a search/seizure, IF there is a reasonable belief that there is criminal activity that might have occurred or is going on.