While such requests would normally be handled by the U.S. attorney for the district in which Minor is incarcerated, in this instance the local U.S. attorney's office recused itself and deferred media inquiries to Washington DOJ officials who quickly and inexplicably declared Paul a flight risk and denied his furlough request.
Now John Lyon, the parliamentary commissioner for standards, will have his turn with the thumbscrews, having deferred his own inquiry while the police conducted theirs.
ERM deferred HuffPost's inquiry to the State Department.
Hunt has no power to defer a Competition Commission inquiry that will take between six and nine months.
NATO, however, deferred the responsibility of initiating any inquiry to Libya's interim authorities, whose survival and climb to power were made possible largely by the airstrike campaign.
"We would have preferred the inquiry to have been deferred to allow the significant improvements that lenders have made to take effect before the industry faced further judgement.
We would be grateful if you would respond to the specific points raised by Alastair Morgan and provide reassurance that the second stage of the Leveson inquiry will not be deferred or cancelled".
Theresa May, the home secretary, and John Whittingdale, the culture secretary, have been challenged by their respective Labour shadows Andy Burnham and Maria Eagle to give a commitment that the Leveson II inquiry "will not be deferred or cancelled".
"We would have preferred the inquiry to have been deferred, to allow the significant improvements that lenders have made to take effect before the industry faced further judgement," said Russell Hamblin-Boone, the CFA's chief executive.
Reflecting the magnitude of the investigation, prosecutors and JPMorgan have held preliminary discussions about a so-called deferred prosecution agreement, people briefed on the inquiry said.
