Moose Stalks Away

Remember Chief Charles Moose? He's the Maryland cop who was the public face of the DC sniper investigation. He quit today so he could write his book about the sniper case (actually, the book's already advertised on Amazon). The resignation ends a standoff with the Montgomery County Ethics Board, which was opposed to the chief's book.

You'd think that the sniper books (Moose's, The Washington Post's, etc.) would not only be out by now, but that they'd already be remaindered. In fact, there's a number of things worth learning about the sniper case. Among them: why investigators thought the threatened public should remain in maximal ignorance, and whether officials now believe this approach may have cost lives. Not to mention that business about a white van.