Sentences with phrase «glory of a smoking gun»

Or if he did know about it, why would he allow all the glory of a smoking gun - magnitude «corruption discovery» go to a relatively unknown johnny - come - lately ozone depletion activist group (it didn't exist in when the 1991 NY Times article came out), and to a guy who was in grave risk of succumbing to a serious credibility problem if any prominent news outlet decided to dig into that particular situation?