Committee Chairman Kevin Bailey says “It may have been a technical violation of the law to destroy the documents. I don’t think there was an intent 
to cover up anything. So I don’t think there’s a need to look at it any further.” He’s leaving the investigation to Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle’s grand jury. (Alas, discretion does seem a Democratic virtue. But then, you knew that.) Meanwhile, he says he can’t do much more to investigate why Texas’ state Homeland Security Czar was in the command center leading the search for the Dems or why he gave the DPS the contact information for Homeland Security …
Mr. Bailey said he has no choice but to accept statements from the Texas attorney general’s office that Mr. Kimbrough was present in his capacity as a state lawyer, advising DPS and House Speaker Tom Craddick, R-Midland, on legal issues related to the hunt.
“And if that’s the case, I don’t see a problem. On the other hand, obviously, if they used the federal agency that’s designed to get terrorists, that might be a problem,” Mr. Bailey said. “I’m not sure it’s anything that I can really, or we can really, get information on.”
That’s from Thursday’s article in the Dallas Morning News, which also says: “Mr. Bailey said the committee can go no further concerning whether federal homeland security assets were abused.”
Finally, the folks at Homeland Security say they’re coming to the end of their investigation. But they still may not be releasing the tapes.
