I get your argument, especially regarding the mass resignation stat unavailability, but the 70k  sealed indictment count on pacer.gov is a stretch for me.  I have followed it from the 15k mark and  you'll have a hard time convincing me that since Huber/Horowitz that rise from around 1k to 70k is a normal swing of "all sealed court documents" within any given period.  (Can you imagine a nationwide count in 2006 of only 1077 TOTAL sealed docs?)  Id be willing to say there are at least 70k sealed juvi docs alone!  Also any contention someone set up a fake 'pacer.gov' In which to red herring us with a sad scheme is also dubious.  Your response seems to make allowance for both theories being in effect simultaneously, but they really couldn't be as they would counter one another.    It just doesn't add up.  (As former law enforcement I concede within any given sealed indictment you could have warrants for objects etc., but you can also have multiple suspects listed within one as well so is it 70k total 'documents' or is it 70k indictments, but that's closer to the norm with the 1k in 2006 the outlier?