Disassembling The Dissembling Of Immigration Officials

The last few days I've been gnawed upon by the feeling that my recent writings on the unreliable words of USCIS and DOL left something important unsaid.  The recanting of DOL and reneging of USCIS keep reminding me of my law school days as my classmates and I watched the daily unfolding of the Watergate scandal on TV in the student lounge. 

When DOL issued its "restatement" of the role of attorneys in PERM recruitment and the AAO said, in effect, that USCIS is not bound by anything it says unless contained in a regulation or precedent decision, the words of Nixon's then Press Secretary, the late Ron Ziegler, came to mind.  He famously repudiated all of his previous factual statements about the Nixon Administration's asserted non-involvement in the Watergate break-in and cover-up by saying that his prior statements were " inoperative."