Monrovia, Aug. 7 -- The operation that shut down Private Bar on Wednesday looked, from the outside, like a raid built to send a message. Heavily armed security officers blocked access to the premises as investigators moved through the property, and journalists who arrived at the scene were kept at a distance on the instructions of a senior female LDEA officer overseeing the operation. It was a markedly different posture than the one authority took just weeks earlier at a raid in the VOA Community connected to the same case, where two foreign nationals were arrested and reporters were allowed considerably closer access to observe. The contrast has not gone unnoticed, and it has renewed the same question that has followed this investigation...